Here they go again.
Republicans.
In this case, Kansas Republicans. And they're further trashing women's reproductive rights, this time with the tax code. News today:
Abortion becomes a tax issue in Kansas House bill
They have no shame, no shame at all.
From the article:
"The tax code is becoming the new weapon in the war against abortion with Kansas pioneering the way.
The Kansas House passed a bill Monday that would further restrict abortion by rewriting state tax law. "Nobody on the state level has gone through their tax code in this manner," said Elizabeth Nash, a state issues manager for the Guttmacher Institute, which tracks reproductive health issues.
The measure is patterned after a similar bill pending in Congress.
The Kansas bill, approved on an 88-31 vote, would prohibit taxpayers from deducting money spent on an abortion or for supplemental health insurance to cover the procedure.
It would bar employers from deducting any money they contribute to a health plan for supplemental insurance coverage of an abortion. It also would ban corporations from taking a tax credit for contributions they make to Planned Parenthood, which provides abortion services in Kansas.
The bill also would apply sales taxes to any drugs used to perform or induce an abortion."
Once more, the political party of supposedly "small government" wants to reach--deeply--into the personal lives of women and their husbands or partners, in an effort to tell them how to live their lives.
And they still don't see the hypocrisies or contradictions.
These are sick, sick people.
Link: http://www.pdacommunity.org/kansas/1623-abortion-becomes-a-tax-issue-in-kansas-house-bill-
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