Texas Senate OKs extending postpartum Medicaid — with an anti-abortion amendment

Patients wait to be seen at the People's Community Clinic in Austin in 2010. (Credit: Callie Richmond for The Texas Tribune)

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Texas is on the precipice of giving new moms a full year of health care coverage, after the Senate unanimously passed a bill to extend Medicaid coverage. The bill has already passed the House, but due to a last-minute anti-abortion amendment, it will now return to that chamber to reconcile the different versions.