By Madison LaClare, LifeNews - A letter signed by more than 100 pro-life organizations urged lawmakers to end the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) so-called “COVID subsidies” that bypassed long-standing protections against taxpayer-funded abortion... These subsidies, which are set to expire at the end of the year, have become a sticking point in the ongoing government funding debate... As the government shutdown drags on with no near end in sight, members of Congress need to ask themselves what the ACA subsidies mean to them. Democratic leaders in Congress are using the extension of these subsidies as leverage to keep the government shut down. They know that Republicans have never voted for the ACA and are unlikely to do so now ....