From The House GOP’s Plan to Redefine Rape | Mother Jones:
Rape is only really rape if it involves force. So says the new House Republican majority as it now moves to change abortion law.
…the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” a bill with 173 mostly Republican co-sponsors that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has dubbed a top priority in the new Congress, …would rewrite the rules to limit drastically the definition of rape and incest [with regard to abortion.]
…For example: If a 13-year-old girl is impregnated by a 24-year-old adult, she would no longer qualify to have Medicaid pay for an abortion…
…that 13-year-old’s parents wouldn’t be allowed to use money from a tax-exempt health savings account (HSA) to pay for the procedure. They also wouldn’t be able to deduct the cost of the abortion or the cost of any insurance that paid for it as a medical expense.
…[Anti-choicers] have been pushing to outlaw tax deductions for insurance plans that cover abortion, even if the abortion coverage is never used…
“This bill goes far beyond current law,” says Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), a co-chair of the congressional pro-choice caucus. The “re-definition” of the rape exception “is only one element” of an “extreme” bill, she adds, citing other provisions in the law that pro-abortion rights groups believe would lead to the end of private health insurance coverage for abortion.
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