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Pro-life legislators have done President Obama a big favor -- they're helping him keep a promise he made to the nation.

The Protect Life Act delivers on the pledge President Obama made to a joint session of Congress in September 2009, that “under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place.”

The bipartisan bill, introduced by Reps. Joe Pitts (R-Penn.) and Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.), addresses serious anti-life provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) by applying the principles of long-standing federal laws prohibiting abortion funding and protecting health care providers’ conscience rights.

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