Oklahoma Lawmaker Proposes Bill To End Low-Income Pregnancy Program

Oklahoma lawmakers will not even consider legislation that would have ended a state pregnancy program for low-income women, including those who live in the U.S. illegally. The bill will not even receive a hearing.

If lawmakers had passed Senate Bill 40, which would have eliminated the Soon-to-be-Sooners program, the state would have lost $91 million in federal funding.

Sen. Paul Scott, the bill’s sponsor, informed the Senate Health and Human Services Committee last Friday that he won’t be requesting a hearing to end the program, but still believes that women who enter the country illegally should not be covered by the program.