Everytime I hear of Republicans/Conservatives doing something extreme that I think there is no way they can top, they go ahead and top it. An incredible piece of legislation, HR3, has been introduced with 221 mostly Republican co-sponsors (actually 212 Republicans and 9 Democrats). The text of the bill can be viewed here:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr3ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr3ih.pdf
This bill prohibits anyone from claiming an itemized deduction on their income tax return for any medical expenses associated with an abortion, or any insurance premium that includes coverage for an abortion, with the only exceptions being for a pregnancy that is aborted due to "forcible rape," "incest" relating to a minor child, or one that "place(s) the pregnant female in danger of death" as certified by a physician. The bill also prohibits any Federal health program, insurance program or funds from being used for an abortion unless it falls within these exceptions. The language, which is more restrictive than any previous Federal law, is very much a problem. "Forcible" rape excludes any rape that is not forcible, for example, statutory rape, or possibly rape of a woman who has been drugged. So here we go again, a woman can only deduct medical expenses related to abortion if she fights her attacker off forcibly enough. "Incest" relating to a minor child excludes incest relating to an adult with diminished capacity. Pregnancy that "place(s) the female in danger of death" excludes a woman whose pregnancy places her in danger of serious bodily harm.
Can you imagine what it will be like during an IRS audit when the IRS agent requires the person being audited to provide documentation of abortion-related medical expenses to ensure they fall within the narrow range of these exceptions?
What the hell are these people thinking? These are the same people who lie, lie, lie claiming they are in favor of small government and government staying out of our business, yet they want IRS agents to grill people regarding details of their personal medical conditions and the specifics of being raped?
These hypocrites support government so small that it fits in the examination room of every gynecologist in the country. They support government staying out of our business, unless that business is the most private medical decisions many women will ever make in their entire lives. They want to abolish the IRS, but until they do they want to use the IRS to torment women who they think should be punished for their personal sexual behavior.
Don't buy their lies!
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Remember too, these are the same clowns who rattle the "state's rights" sabres every time the federal government attempts to regulate in an area outside of the enumerated powers. I can promise you, regulating a woman's health decisions ain't in there. So, they find going back-door through the taxing power to be acceptable, even though it is clearly inconsistent with the spirit of our Constitution. And to confiscate citizens' hard-earned money by denying them a medical deduction ... when they would permit deductions to religious organizations?! Hypocrites indeed! I would prophesy that these same clowns (or those of their ilk) will advocate state-sponsored murder when the inevitable day comes that our population exceeds our food capacity. No doubt they will again resort to some new-found christian tradition to justify it - which they will call Constitutional and sell as such.
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