IRS Abortion Audits Would Be Required Under GOP Proposal

Mother Jones:

Under a GOP-backed bill expected to sail through the House of Representatives, the Internal Revenue Service would be forced to police how Americans have paid for their abortions. To ensure that taxpayers complied with the law, IRS agents would have to investigate whether certain terminated pregnancies were the result of rape or incest. And one tax expert says that the measure could even lead to questions on tax forms: Have you had an abortion? Did you keep your receipt?

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Comments

[madgrrl]

05:31 PM on 03/31/2011

Republicans are for limited government - Unless you are FEMALE! Then they sick the IRS on you and then question you in about your rape or incest experience. Are they going to ask MEN if they contributed to an abortion? Sick!!!!!

Also, how many JOBS did this create - because I thought they were interested in creating JOBS?

[lcole3]

11:49 AM on 03/23/2011

Arizona is considering a law to prevent selective abortions based on the sex or race of the fetus. The Arizona bill would make it a felony for any doctor who performs an abortion for these reasons. How do you feel about this legislation?


http://survey.matterofopinion.com/survey.jsp?surveyid=133

[bubyrd]

09:10 PM on 03/22/2011

I am morally opposed to capital punishment.
I have to pay for it through my taxes, like it or not.
I am morally opposed to killing civilians in war.
I have to pay for it through my taxes, like it or not.
I have to pay for cost-plus contracts to mercenary soldiers, like it or not.

There should be no exemptions for tax funding of legal medical procedures.
Write your representatives to protest this dichotomy.

[letsmakeitright]

12:00 AM on 03/22/2011

The GOP wants the IRS to truly by "Internal."

[huffy2001]

08:46 AM on 03/21/2011

The party of small, unintrusive government strikes again.

[nofriendofrepublicans]

06:44 PM on 03/20/2011

KEEP BIG GOVERNMENT OUT OF WOMEN'S VAGINAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lcole3]

01:56 PM on 03/24/2011

If this bill is passed, IRS will need to check if people got abortions or not. Is this an invasion of privacy or is something that needs to be passed by the GOP?

http://survey.matterofopinion.com/survey.jsp?surveyid=133

[JayCe]

06:38 PM on 03/20/2011

I understand that many people are against abortion. I understand if their reason is truly a conviction based on their religion or morality. I also believe many are just using this for political reasons and that is wrong. Pregnancy is a women's health, economic and life issue. Opting for an abortion is a very difficult decision for most women. Prior to legalized abortion women had no choice over this issue. They could have the baby or have an illegal abortion which was often a dangerous, death inflicting choice. Many do not believe that life begins at conception. We are not a theocracy (yet). What right do others have to dictate to women that they cannot have an abortion because it does not agree with their religious or moral beliefs? The anti-abortion movement is anti-women, anti-American and a political tool of the right. The GOP has made this a very important issue. It is doing everything to make it difficult for pregnant women to get a legal abortion. This will not stop abortions. It does get support and votes. What if a law were passed that every male who impregnates a woman who isn't his wife must have a vasectomy. Afterall the Bible condemns adultry.

[LorettaSingbiel]

05:09 PM on 03/20/2011

The proposal, which House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has declared a top priority of the new Republican Congress, has 221 cosponsors and is expected to pass the House easily.

SERIOUSLY? ... THIS proposal is TOP PRIORITY?

Where are the JOBS, Boehner?

Keep your government hands OFF MY BODY ... and OUT OF GAYS BEDROOMS!!!

[gwhitejr]

02:31 PM on 03/20/2011

If a fetus is "life" why cant I claim it as a dependent from the time of conception?

[huffy2001]

08:47 AM on 03/21/2011

Pugs' definition of life begins at conception and ends at birth.

[nofriendofrepublicans]

04:27 PM on 03/24/2011

At birth they become a burden.

[Keyop]

02:03 PM on 03/20/2011

Also last time I checked when Bu$h was president, the House was GOP controlled as was the Senate as well as a 5 to 4 Repub supreme court, so why didnt the GOP make abortion illegal?! Oh yeah they just want to keep it legal to use as a wedge issue so they dont haave to focus on important issues. I forgot about that.

[Kara Kramer]

05:07 PM on 03/20/2011

They don't really care about abortion, or 'life'. They just intend to make it progressively more dangerous and more stigmatized in order to suppress women and get the woman hating, control f.reak vote.

[pindiva]

12:37 PM on 03/20/2011

Let's see - the GOP doesn't want IRS agents to audit for tax cheats, but they DO want it to audit for healthcare?

[LorettaSingbiel]

05:18 PM on 03/20/2011

The Tea/Republicans WRONGLY whined about IRS agents arresting them if they didn't pay the healthcare "mandate" ... and yet they seem sanctimoniously silent about their party demanding that IRS agents hunt down & audit women who've had abortions.

[FBatRNC]

11:51 AM on 03/20/2011

RW's say "Small government now!" "Less government intrusion into our personal lives!" . . . . . . .

Unless it has to do with a womans womb. Then we will sic the iRS on you.

[LorettaSingbiel]

05:21 PM on 03/20/2011

The PHONY prolifers could care less about stopping abortions. Their ONLY MISSION is stop SAFE abortions. They WANT women desperate to terminate their pregnancies to BLEED TO DEATH!!!

[madgrrl]

05:32 PM on 03/31/2011

unless of course you are of a certain social class and can fly to France for the weekend and have the procedure done in a spa like atomsphere....

[catrancher]

11:39 AM on 03/20/2011

Repubs have said nothing about tax payer funding of ED drugs. Why?

I'm sure that ED drugs are responsible for many unwanted pregnancies. I'll bet some of them end in abortions too.

This is an attack on women plain and simple.

[madrediterra]

11:27 AM on 03/20/2011

In time they will figure out that it's best to implant the state-owned female reproductive system with information gathering software at birth and can then be poised to take action the moment they suspect a foreign threat to the no-fly-zone formerly known as the uterus. I've begun to understand that this merely extends their foreign policy to the female of the species.

From here on, when the subject of abortion is raised, I'll think "Bush Doctrine."

[CPAwADD]

11:23 AM on 03/20/2011

The GOP want s gov't out of our lives but into the areas of our lives that are most personal.