Anti-Abortion, pro-Statutory Rape Bill passed by House GOP

[Suu]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/05/05/house-gop-unanimously-passes-anti-abortion-bill-that-redefines-rape-raises-taxes-and-creates-rape-audits/

Redefinition Of Rape: The bill sponsor Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) faced serious backlash after he tried to narrow the definition rape to "forcible rape." By narrowing the rape and incest exception in the Hyde Amendment, Smith sought to prevent the following situations from consideration: Women who say no but do not physically fight off the perpetrator, women who are drugged or verbally threatened and raped, and minors impregnated by adults.

Smith promised to remove the language and while it is not technically in the bill, Mother Jones reports that House Republicans used "a sly legislative maneuver" to insert a "backdoor reintroduction" of redefinition language. Essentially, if the bill is challenged in court, judges will look at the congressional committee report to determine intent. 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.

– Tax Increase On Women And Small Businesses: H.R. 3 prevents women from using "itemized medical deductions, certain tax-advantaged health care accounts or tax credits included in last year's health care law to pay for abortions or for health insurance plans that cover abortion." 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.

– Rape Audits: 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" who would force women to give "contemporaneous written documentation" that it was "incest, or rape, or [her] life was in danger" that compelled an abortion.

– Bans D.C.-Funded Abortions: 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. Thus, health clinics in D.C. are banned from using public funds from D.C. taxpayers to provide abortion services. H.R. 3 "would enshrine the District ban into federal law." According to the Office of Management and Budget office, such a restriction violates "home rule."

[Phox]

i'm running out of things to say in regard to this. But I will personally piss on every single one of the cocksuckers who voted for this if I ever get the chance. Not. Kidding.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Super fucked up. 

[Freeky]

I was already having a pretty foul day, but now I am utterly without hope of anything getting better ever

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I woke up this morning without the will to live.

This pretty much confirms it.

[Suu]

I'm starting to seriously look into how much red tape it will take me to get my UK Citizenship.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I, for one, plan to write a few letters.

It won't change anything, but I can at least call the staffers names for working for these scum.

[Cramulus]

so which dems supported this crap?

[LMNO]

so which dems supported this crap?

Altmire, Boren, Costello, Critz, Cuellar, Donnelly (IN), Holden, Kaptur, Kildee, Lipinski, Matheson, McIntyre, Peterson, Rahall, Ross (AR), Shuler

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/3RawBob/hr-3-not-actually-about-t_n_857420_86992389.html

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

The best part is the fact that they have the IRS doing it.
Because we all know how sensitive and understanding the IRS is.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The best part is the fact that they have the IRS doing it.
Because we all know how sensitive and understanding the IRS is.

And how underworked they are.

It's not like this is going to turn into personal bureaucratic nightmares that never end.

Or that it was intentionally designed that way.

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

The best part is the fact that they have the IRS doing it.
Because we all know how sensitive and understanding the IRS is.

And how underworked they are.

It's not like this is going to turn into personal bureaucratic nightmares that never end.

Or that it was intentionally designed that way.

This is horrible on so many levels.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The best part is the fact that they have the IRS doing it.
Because we all know how sensitive and understanding the IRS is.

And how underworked they are.

It's not like this is going to turn into personal bureaucratic nightmares that never end.

Or that it was intentionally designed that way.

This is horrible on so many levels.

Well, that's just the 21st Century's way of saying "Howdy do!"  

The intent is to punish women for not producing lots of little soldiers.  You can be sure that, above a certain income/influence level, these audits will be a mere formality handled by lawyers.  You can be equally sure that the audits will be used to make very public examples of poor women who choose to have abortions.  Not on any big screen, network news level, but right there on your street.

School's in, suckers:

"Whatever happened to Brenda?"

"Oh, she got nailed on an abortion audit, they froze her assets, and drove her bankrupt.  She's living in her mother's basement while they try to determine if they're going to press charges."

I fail to see how this isn't painfully clear at first glance.

[Bruno]

Coming Soon:





It's times like this I miss my old CRT monitor.

Those things knew how to take a punch.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Aborion?