Last week the National Right to Life Committee charged that the high-risk government health care plan proposed in Pennsylvania would pay for elective abortions.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a statement saying this was not the case, and that abortions will not be paid for in any state exchange (except in cases of rape or incest, or when the life of the mother would be endangered).

The Associated Press called this a "win" for pro-life forces, admitting that this HHS policy was in fact more restrictive than the legislation signed into law by President Obama earlier this year.

Other states are quickly changing the language of their plans, removing the coverage for elective abortions that they originally contained. New Mexico is the clearest example of this switch to date.

Proponents of the health care overhaul are saying these changes are the result of the President's executive order, or that this change proves that the legislation does not allow for the federal funding of abortions.

But of course this cannot be true. If the President's executive order were effective, and if the legislation did rule out federal funding of abortions, these state plans would never have been able to include abortion funding in the first place. It is only the close monitoring of these individual plans by national pro-life groups that is forcing the administration to crack down on these individual plans. Kathryn Lopez writes that of the five state plans the NRLC has examined so far, three contained abortion funding (PA, New Mexico and Maryland).

In other words, if pro-lifers are not vigilant, streams of abortion funding will open up under Obamacare. Consider Doug Johnson's words to LifeNews:

"The available evidence indicates that the Obama Administration bureaucrats had no intention whatever to impede the funding of abortions through the new federal program to establish high-risk insurance pools -- until NRLC sounded the alarm and put the spotlight on what they were up to," he said.

"Regrettably, there are many other programs and authorities in the 2,000-page health care law that will provide the Obama Administration with additional opportunities to expand abortion -- and we can expect that they will try to do so, particularly when they think they can accomplish something under the public's radar," Johnson continued.

Kathryn Lopez sums it up best: "[This] means the lie is up: Obamcare never prohibited abortion funding. It's a matter of administrative discretion."

Even the other side of this debate admits what pro-lifers were saying during the final days of the debate: "nothing in federal law actually restricts the use of federal or state money for abortion in PCIPs." This line was taken from a rabidly pro-abortion advocacy website.

So, does Obamacare allow abortion funding? Of course.

This means Americans must continue to remain vigilant lest their tax dollars find their way into one of these many new streams of abortion funding created by Obamacare.