Every single Republican and 16 Democrats voted for this, some lowlights
The committee report for H.R. 3 says the bill will “not allow the Federal Government to subsidize abortions in cases of statutory rape” — thus excluding statutory rape-related abortions from Medicaid coverage
In doing so, the bill forces women and small businesses that provide health insurance that covers abortion to pay more in taxes than they would otherwise. Both economic conservative Grover Norquist and the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce noted that the bill is basically a tax increase.
Because H.R. 3 bans using tax credits or deductions to pay for abortions or insurance, a woman who used such a benefit would have to prove, if audited, that her abortion “fell under the rape/incest/life-of-the-mother exception, or that the health insurance she had purchased did not cover abortions.” Essentially, the bill turns Internal Revenue Service agents into “abortion cops
The most recent spending resolution contained a ban on abortions in the District of Columbia by redefining the D.C. local government as the federal government
The way members voted can be found here
This bill also contains a backdoor maneuver
The backdoor reintroduction of the statutory rape change relies on the use of a committee report, a document that congressional committees produce outlining what they intend a piece of legislation to do. If there's ever a court fight about the interpretation of a law—and when it comes to a subject as contentious as abortion rights, there almost always is—judges will look to the committee report as evidence of congressional intent, and use it to decide what the law actually means.
Not content with the Hyde Amendment
The Hyde Amendment does not allow Medicaid coverage for abortion. Also prohibited is abortion coverage for women in in the military, the Peace Corps, federal prisons, and those who receive medical care from Indian Health Services.
Originally the Amendment did not include an exception for rape this was changed in 1977 due to the outcry.
This bill attacks the poorest women who cannot afford to pay for an abortion; now this begs the question if you cannot afford an abortion how can you afford to raise a child? This doesn't matter to the blastocyst brigade, once it's born it can be chewed up and spat out for all they care.
Why that had to strive to maintain the language as to what constitutes rape is telling in itself; the woman doesn't matter, only the group of cells needs protecting.
This war on women is not creating one job, all this legislative effort and time is hopefully being wasted as this bill will hopefully fall in the senate, if not there; hopefully at the president's desk.
Republicans wasting time in their holier than thou wars whilst not actually doing anything constructive except further endangering women.
Where are the jobs?
Update
Please read
Another diary that expands upon the consequences of the bill
I don't make this distinction of language to criticize the previous diarist, but as a plea to my fellow Democrats to not let the GOP misleadingly frame what is going on here. I would ask all DKos diarists to henceforth call HR 3 by exactly what it intends --- The Criminalizing Abortion Through the Tax Code Act.