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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsImagine having to recount a sexual assault—a horrifyingly painful, personal experience—to the IRS!
House Republicans Are Pushing A Bill That Would Force The IRS To Audit Rape Victims
House Republicans are currently advancing the No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act, or HR 7, a measure that would impose sweeping restrictions on abortion coverage that could make the procedure less affordable for Americans across the country. In addition to preventing low-income women from using their Medicaid coverage to access abortion, HR 7 could also have dramatic implications for the tax code and the private insurance market. One of its most controversial provisions could actually require the Internal Revenue Service to conduct audits of rape victims.
Why? Because HR 7 eliminates medical-expense deductions for abortion care, essentially raising taxes on the women who opt to have an abortion. Like many abortion restrictions, this provision includes an exemption for victims of rape and incest, as well as women who encounter life-threatening complications from their pregnancies. But in order to enforce those exceptions, the IRS would have to verify that the women who are claiming a medical-expense deduction for an abortion fall into one of those three categories, to ensure theyre not committing tax fraud.
Essentially, that would empower the government agency to have the final say over what count as a sexual assault or a life-threatening situation. And that, in turn, would force victims to prove their case.
Imagine having to recount a sexual assault a horrifyingly painful, personal experience to a tax collector, NARAL Pro-Choice America says in an action alert to its members to encourage them to mobilize against HR 7. An anti-choice bill in Congress would do just that. It could force sexual assault survivors who access abortion care to prove the assault occurred.
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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/01/16/3167301/taxpayer-funding-abortion-rape-irs/
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Imagine having to recount a sexual assault—a horrifyingly painful, personal experience—to the IRS! (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2014
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warrior1
(12,325 posts)1. it's not going to pass the senate
and another waste of time by the house republicans. How do they even have jobs?
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)2. OMFG
I wasn't aware of just how vile HR 7 really is. Thanks for posting this.