10/18/11: Abortion Restriction Passes House

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By a bipartisan vote of 251-172, the U.S. House of Representatives last week approved the Protect Life Act, a bill to nullify the multiple abortion-expanding provisions of the 2010 federal health care law also known as “ObamaCare.”

Earlier this month the White House issued a formal veto threat against the Protect Life Act. Douglas Johnson of NRLC said “President Obama won enactment of ObamaCare by pretending that the bill did not expand abortion — but now the mask is coming off.”

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act “contained multiple provisions that provide authorizations for subsidies for abortion, both implicit and explicit, and also multiple provisions that opened doors to abortion-expanding administrative actions.”