While pro-life activists across the US cheered the passing of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment to the House health care bill, they have warned that the bill remains a serious concern and that the pro-life amendment may yet be dropped at a later stage.

Eric Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League said that “Hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers across the country called their Reps in Washington demanding that abortion funding be stripped from the health care bill, and it worked.”

Last weekend, the US House of Representatives passed the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, which explicitly requires no federal funds be used to pay for abortion under the new healthcare reform bill.

Representatives from both the Republican and Democrat parties were taken aback by the flood of calls and emails from supporters of the pro-life amendment

Planned Parenthood and the pro-abortion lobby fought hard to keep abortion funding loopholes in the bill. “But they failed,” said Eric Scheidler because they didn’t have the grassroots, the huge number of supporters, the pro-life movement has.

But he warned:” Of course, there are still major problems with this legislation as it moves on to the Senate, and Planned Parenthood will redouble their effort to get an abortion mandate back in there.”

National Right to Life's Douglas Johnson agreed that the victory was not total. "Today's bipartisan House vote is a sharp blow to the White House's pro-abortion smuggling operation," he said."But we know that the White House and pro-abortion congressional Democratic leaders will keep trying to enact government funding of abortion, and will keep trying to conceal their true intentions, so there is a long battle ahead."

Pro-abort leaders across America flew into a rage as the pro-life Stupak amendment, unexpectedly approved for consideration at the last minute, went on to gain an easy victory Saturday. "I feel certain [the Stupak amendment] will come out of the bill before it comes back from committee," pro-abortion California Democrat Lynn Woolsey told The Hill. "I will insist that it come out."

And Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins warned: "The Speaker's bill still allows rationing of health care for seniors, raises health costs for families, mandates that families purchase under threat of fines and penalties, encourages counseling for assisted suicide in some states, does not offer broad conscience protections for health care workers and seeks to insert the federal government into all aspects of citizen's lives."