The House of representatives will vote next week on legislation that would stop abortion funding in Obamacare, the national health care plan that contains no limits on taxpayer funding of abortions.

H.R. 358, Protect Life Act, will likely come up for a vote on the House floor next Thursday after pro-life lawmakers fended off numerous hostile amendments from pro-abortion members of Congress during the committee markup. Capital Hill sources informed LifeNews today that they expect pro-abortion lawmakers to offer many of those weakening amendments that would water down the bill on the House floor.

The Protect Life Act makes it clear that no funds authorized or appropriated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), including tax credits and cost-sharing reductions, may be used to pay for abortion or abortion coverage.

The bill that would ensure no loopholes in the Obamacare bill can authorize abortion funding under the federal law received a positive vote from House Energy and Commerce today. The legislation also protects conscience rights for medical workers.

On Friday, a subcommittee approved the bill and, today the full committee voted to send the Protect Life Act, one of three measures pro-life groups are supporting to remove governmental financial support for the abortion industry, to the full House.

Democrats Mike Ross of Arkansas and Jim Matheson of Utah and all Republicans on the Committee voted for passage of the bill. Several hostile amendments were offered, and Ross joined all Republicans on the Committee to defeat each hostile amendment...

A House of Representatives Committee on Friday approved legislation that would remove any potential abortion funding the Obamacare health care web site may allow.

The Protect Life Act, is one of three measures pro-life groups are supporting to remove governmental financial support for the aborton industry. Earlier this week, Republicans and Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on health sparred over the measure, HR 358, sponsored by the subcommittee’s chairman, pro-life Republican Rep. Joe Pitts of Pennsylvania.

Before the final vote on the measure, pro-life Republican lawmakers turned back weakening amendments sponsored by pro-abortion Democrats Henry Waxman, Jan Schkowsky and Elliot Engel...

The Protect Life Act, a Congressional bill that would zap the abortion funding the Obamacare health care reform legislation allows, got the spotlight Wednesday afternoon in a House hearing.

The measure is the second pro-life bill House Republicans have taken up in key hearings in two days – and the attention the Protect Life Act received follows the hearing on the No Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Act, which would eliminate federal funding of abortions throughout the federal government.

Republicans and Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on health sparred over the measure., HR 358, sponsored by the subcommittee’s chairman, pro-life Republican Rep. Joe Pitts of Pennsylvania.