The Pro-Life Amendment to the Health care bill died in the Senate yesterday. The amendment sought to remove elective abortion from the new federal programs that would be created by the Harry Reid health care plan. The amendment ended with a vote of 54 to 45.

This vote has spurred the Right to Life movement to call for the defeat of the current health care legislation. In a statement yesterday the National Right to Life Committee stated:

A majority of senators today voted to keep abortion covered in the proposed federal government insurance program, and to subsidize private insurance plans that cover abortion on demand. Now, the vote on cloture on the bill itself will become the key vote on whether to put the federal government into the abortion business. We will oppose cloture on the bill, which would require 60 affirmative votes.