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Healthcare | Pro-lifers win a big victory in the House, but the fight over abortion funding continues | Edward Lee Pitts

Associated Press/Photo by Harry Hamburg

This spring House Democrat Bart Stupak told WORLD that the pro-abortion side of his party would "get a battle" if they tried to change laws dealing with abortion. And when House leaders this month tried to push through a healthcare overhaul without explicitly excluding taxpayer-funded abortions, Stupak went to war.

The result was a rare congressional vote on abortion that quickly became a watershed moment for the pro-life movement as it secured its first victory in the effort to keep abortion out of Democratic designs on healthcare.

Overhaul advocates spent months trying to push aside the abortion question until suddenly they found that the issue had taken over center stage on the day House lawmakers voted for the overall healthcare bill.

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