House GOP Redefines Rape, Raises Taxes, and Creates Rape Audit

Wingnuts • May 2011 • Views: 1,376

In a 251 to 175 vote this evening, 16 anti-choice Democrats joined every House Republican present in passing H.R. 3, the No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act. A chief weapon in the House GOP’s “comprehensive assault” on women this bill proposes some of the most radical and draconian restrictions on women’s rights. These Include:

– Redefinition Of Rape
– Tax Increase On Women And Small Businesses
– Rape Audits
– Bans D.C.-Funded Abortions

Absolutely disgusting.

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11 comments

theheat May 5, 2011 6:13:40am

Thanks for the link. This is a concise, eye opening documentation of the GOP’s push for an inhuman theocracy.

Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut May 5, 2011 6:42:08am

Wow.

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.

So young girls that get raped get further punished by making it much more likely that they’ll be forced to carry their rapists baby.

And with the dismal statistics on rape prosecution, the rapist probably gets away with it.

Easier for a rapist to choose when to have a child than a woman to choose when she’ll have a child.

iceweasel May 5, 2011 6:44:05am

re: #2 Obdicut

Wow.

So young girls that get raped get further punished by making it much more likely that they’ll be forced to carry their rapists baby.

And with the dismal statistics on rape prosecution, the rapist probably gets away with it.

Easier for a rapist to choose when to have a child than a woman to choose when she’ll have a child.

They should drop all pretences and call it the Forced Preganancy Plan.

Romantic Heretic May 5, 2011 7:11:55am

Man, the cognitive dissonance is so huge I’m amazed the House GOP members can get through the day without a massive psychotic break.

iceweasel May 5, 2011 9:28:38am

Just got an email from the DCCC:

Last night House Republicans voted in favor of an appalling piece of anti-choice legislation that could force victims or rape and incest to relive their trauma during an IRS audit and deny millions of American women access to life-saving reproductive health care.

Their assault on women has nothing to do with saving money and everything to do with forcing extremist beliefs into the tax code of the United States of America.

And they didn’t stop there. They used the occasion to sneak in a provision restricting the definition of rape to deny victims access to reproductive health care — even after they claimed to have removed the language in the face of overwhelming public opposition.

We must take immediate, decisive action against this attack on women’s health and reproductive freedom.

Help us hold House Republicans accountable: Contribute $3 or more right now so we can get hard-hitting Rapid Response ads up holding Republican extremists in Congress accountable for their radical assault on women’s health care and reproductive freedom.

Republicans’ H.R. 3 bill would drastically restrict women’s options for reproductive services by imposing burdensome new regulations on public and private insurance coverage. If made law, women would be denied using money from their personal health savings accounts to pay for abortion services.

I know how important it is for all women to have access to reproductive health care and it is unconscionable that one party would hold women’s health hostage and use the tax code as a moral club to force their religious beliefs on every American.

We are just $27,215 short of our emergency Rapid Response goal of $100,000 by Midnight Tonight to fight this Republican extremism.

Help us hold House Republicans accountable: Contribute $3 or more right now so we can get hard-hitting Rapid Response ads up holding Republican extremists in Congress accountable for their radical assault on women’s health care and reproductive freedom.

With your help, we will stand up to this extremism and protect women’s reproductive freedom.

Thank you.

I’m hoping they’ll raise a lot of funds and go after this bullshit.

iceweasel May 5, 2011 10:29:25am

Pandagon has the lowdown on how this affects women:

1) Lots more dead women. The legislators who wrote HR3 really, really like the idea of pregnant women paying for fucking with their lives. The bill attacks the lives of pregnant women in two major ways. First of all, the bill will force all insurance companies in the country to drop abortion coverage. For women getting first trimester abortions of choice, this will be a burden, but since this is more of an attack on women who already have insurance, they’re likely to be in a slightly better financial situation than the women who get screwed daily by the Hyde Amendment, and therefore more likely to be able to get the $500 together for an abortion.

Not so for women who are 20 weeks along, develop eclampsia or cancer, and need an abortion or they’ll die. That procedure can costs thousands of dollars, well out of the reach of many women who need it. So they’d be screwed.

More than that, you have the amendment to the bill that would allow hospitals to turn away women who need emergency terminations. If you have an ectopic pregnancy, for instance, they would be able to turn you away. Some times women who miscarry don’t miscarry all the way, and they need to get D&Cs at the hospital in order not to die of blood poisoning. Hospitals would now be able to turn them away.

Absolutely disgusting. The GOP deserves to be out of power forever. I no longer have any respect for anyone who supports these positions or the people who espouse them. (Not that I had much to begin with)