By Kathleen Gilbert

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Abortion negotiations stretching through the night Friday into the early morning hours have ended in the House Rules Committee reportedly allowing a vote on Hyde-amendment language in the health care bill. The full House debate on the momentous bill is now poised to begin Saturday morning.

Democrat leadership evidently made the late concession during a Rules Committee hearing last night as part of an increasingly desperate search for enough votes to pass the health care bill.  The pro-life language spearheaded by Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak, reflecting the Hyde amendment's ban on federal funding of abortions, will at long last be open to a vote on the House floor.  Both parties in the debate expect the House to vote the Stupak amendment into the bill.

During the hearing, Stupak quoted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during the 2006 campaigns when she said, "The voice of American has a right to be heard."

"So, like every American, I wish to be heard on the sanctity of life," Stupak said.

The unexpected concession reportedly drove several pro-abortion Democrats, including Rules Committee chairman Louise Slaughter, to leave the room amid the negotiations.

There was a false start earlier in the evening, when Stupak had initially agreed to a compromise that would allow a vote on Hyde-amendment protection for the government-run public option, but not to other portions of the bill, such as taxpayer subsidies for abortion-covering insurance plans.

"There was some compromise language from different proposals that we thought would be satisfactory, our understanding was that we had an agreement. Two hours later it was not an agreement," Stupak said around 1 a.m. this morning.

Democrats hold 258 seats in the House, which