Democrats have never seen an abortion they didn’t want to fund with taxpayer dollars.

(LifeNews) — Yesterday, the Senate appropriations measure received approval from the Senate Appropriations Committee that funds the federal government and, unlike the measure House Republicans passed in their committees, the Senate bill funds abortions in D.C.

The bill Senate Democrats passed was approved without the Dornan amendment, which is found in the GOP House bill, that prevents taxpayers from paying for hundreds of abortions in the District of Columbia.The ban is currently back in place after President Barack Obama and Democrats removed it following the 2008 elections. However, Democrats and Republicans must again work out how to treat the thorny issue so a bill funding the federal government can go to Obama for his signature.

The abortion funding issue will now become part of the debate between the House and Senate on how to approve a new measure to fund the federal government. The previous Continuing Resolution stopped funding abortions as it funded the government for months but now lawmakers have to wage the fight again to determine whether the funding ban will remain in place.

The deal pro-life Speaker John Boehner arranged with Democrats in April allowed for a pro-life victory in the reinstatement of the ban on funding abortions in the District of Columbia, which is projected to save the lives of hundreds of unborn children annually who may have otherwise become victims of taxpayer-funded abortions.

The House -approved version of the new bill that funds the D.C. budget for 2012 contains the abortion funding ban but abortion advocates lobbied Senate democrats to keep it out in the upper chamber.

On Monday, the Washington Post reported, the top abortion activists in the House — Reps. Louise Slaughter of New York and Diana DeGette of Colorado — sent a letter to senators signed by 59 pro-abortion House members urging the funding ban to be eliminated.