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By Chrissy the Hyphenated

Excerpts from LifeNews report
@ http://www.lifenews.com/2011/04/08/budget-deal-nets-dc-abortion-funding-ban-planned-parenthood-vote/

The budget deal restores language that prohibits federal taxpayer funding of abortions in the nation’s capital that President Barack Obama and Democrats removed in a previous budget when they controlled both chambers of Congress. Congress had a ban on taxpayer funding for abortions in D.C. from 1996-2009. When Democrats got control of the House, the Senate and the Oval, they lifted the ban. The National Right to Life Committee says that, prior to the ban, public funds paid for more than 4,000 abortions a year in the nation’s capital.

The budget deal requires the Senate to vote on a bill the House Republicans already approved to repeal the pro-abortion Obamacare bill that contains abortion funding and rationing concerns and on revoking funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business. Both votes will force Senators coming up for re-election in 2012 to go on record about where they stand on abortion and on Obamacare.

The Senate vote on funding PP will also give pro-life advocates an opportunity to testify to all the ways PP doesn’t protect women’s health, has covered up cases of sexual abuse, and has used $363 million in annual federal funding to prop up a business that now does more than one-quarter of all abortions in the nation.