Small government Republicans are at it again, normally these tax hating knuckle draggers hate the IRS; but now they want them to audit us if we have had an abortion.
Lets see so far:
1] They want us battered and bleeding enough so that rape can be determined.
2] They want to allow hospitals to be able to let us die rather than help.
3] They want to make our health care as unaffordable as possible.
4] They want to remove access to contraception to millions.
5] If we want to have an abortion we must first undergo an Inquisition.
If all this fails they now want the IRS to investigate via HR3: No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act
Interesting quotes from this:
"Legal abortions are relatively cheap"
Hence
"For the moral hazard of aspect of who would want to purchase a plan that is essentially only offering abortion coverage that I think our economic thinking is that those plans would not exist"
Well they might be "affordable" [$300 to $600] via Planned Parenthood, but they also want to get rid of a major provider of women's health care for the sake of 3% of its budget. I'm sure they can find a way of making it unaffordable via an "evil woman tax".
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As Mother Jones reports
One consequence of the Republicans' "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" would be to turn IRS agents into abortion cops—that is, during an audit, they'd have to detemine, from evidence provided by the taxpayer, whether any tax benefit had been inappropriately used to pay for an abortion.
"Were this to become law, people could end up in an audit, the subject of which could be abortion, rape, and incest," says Christopher Bergin, the head of Tax Analysts, a nonpartisan, not-for-profit tax policy group. "If you pass the law like this, the IRS would be required to enforce it."
Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) then asked the obvious question:
Would a woman have to certify that the Health Savings Account funds she spent on birth control pills or for a doctor's visit weren't used to pay for an abortion? If a woman were audited, would IRS agents be at her house demanding court documents or affidavits proving that her pregnancy was the result of rape or incest?
Oh come on Mike, what right thinking woman possible object to some stranger wanting to know our most private details... this is what governments are for after all...sheesh
So if you do manage to buy a health care plan that covers abortions you will immediately be considered evil, and if you can actually afford an abortion you may be subjected to an IRS audit. You just know five minutes later they will be whining about "big gubbmint".
Fucking evangelical fascists is all they are, and it is high time they were regarded as such.
The sad thing is it is not only Republicans supporting this extension of government power over women, there are at least 11 Democrats sponsoring this tripe.