(AgapePress) - The bill banning the late-term abortion procedure known as "partial-birth abortion" has passed in the House of Representatives. But not all pro-lifers are happy with the attention the bill received.

President Bush is hailing the House's passage of a measure to ban partial-birth abortion. On a vote of 282-139, the House voted Wednesday night to ban the procedure. The president says the legislation will "help build a culture of life in America." Pro-abortion groups plan to challenge it in court as soon as it becomes law.

The Senate passed a nearly identical bill in March, but differences with the House must still be ironed out before the legislation is sent to the president for his signature.

Many pro-lifers are glad to finally see the possibility of a federal ban on partial-birth abortion in sight. But Judie Brown of the American Life League is not among that group. She says the legislation as it is now written will not save the life on one unborn baby.

"It's just a shame that the partial-birth abortion bill claims to ban a procedure that by the definitions and exceptions in the bill will not ban anything and probably will not stop one abortion," Brown says.

"I just find it terribly disconcerting that all these members of Congress have gotten together to have a 'parade' about a bill that won't stop any abortion."

Brown calls this whole debate a political game that Republicans are playing for their election campaign. "The problem is that in the process of doing things like this, millions and millions of lives are lost and nobody seems to pay any attention to that," she says. "I find that egregious."

Brown says when the partial-birth abortion procedure is banned, abortionists will simply use another form of abortion to kill the innocent unborn.

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