The Protect Life Act, sponsored by Reps. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) and Daniel Lipinski (D-Ill.), would ensure that healthcare reform does not provide federal funding for abortion, while the more comprehensive No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), would extend new restrictions on abortion. Another bill from Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) would cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood.

By Jason Millman at The Hill

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Senate Democrats are bracing for the possibility that the House Republican majority can force their hand on abortion legislation.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) predicted Tuesday that Republicans would try to force a vote on abortion bills by attaching them as riders to must-pass legislation.

Though Democrats still hold the majority in the Senate, Republicans have shown they could force a vote on politically challenging issues. Despite promising for weeks that the Senate would not hold a vote on repealing the healthcare reform law, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) relented last week in an agreement with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

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