GOP under pressure to prevent Obamacare subsidies from funding abortions

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Anti-abortion advocates are hopeful that the standoff in Congress over the future of Obamacare will enable Republicans to achieve the long-term goal of preventing federally subsidized insurance plans from covering abortion services. 

Republicans and Democrats are at a standstill as to whether a bill to reopen the federal government will involve some sort of plan to extend the enhanced premium tax credits for private Obamacare marketplace exchange health insurance plans set to expire at the end of the year. 

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