Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Steve Stivers Supports Abortion Audits????

This Republican right wing House of Representatives has done absolutely nothing to create one job.  (See RawStory for the "Top 6 Things Republicans Consider More Important than Job Creation.")Here is an example of the kind of bill they are writing, supporting, and hoping to pass, as explained by BlogforChoice

...More media outlets are reporting that H.R.3, the dangerous "Stupak on Steroids" bill, could subject survivors of rape and incest who choose abortion to audits by the Internal Revenue Service...

...These outrageous "abortion audits" would place the burden of proof on the woman:

Under standard audit procedure, a woman would have to provide evidence to corroborate facts about abortions, rapes, and cases of incest, says Marcus Owens, an accountant and former longtime IRS official. If a taxpayer received a deduction or tax credit for abortion costs related to a case of rape or incest, or because her life was endangered, then "on audit [she] would have to demonstrate or prove, ideally by contemporaneous written documentation, that it was incest, or rape, or [her] life was in danger," Owens says. "It would be fairly intrusive for the woman."

 
Can you guess exactly which members have signed on as co-sponsors of this ludicrous bill?

The following Ohio Republicans support H.R. 3:

Steve Austria,  Steve Chabot,  Bob Gibbs,  Bill Johnson,  Jim Jordan,  Steve LaTourette, Bob Latta,  Jean Schmidt,  Steve Stivers,  Pat Tiberi,  Michael Turner

These Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives think that it is not enough that a woman has been raped, and humiliated.  They want her to be audited by the IRS for taking a deduction for a medical procedure. 

The entire list can be seen at the LibraryofCongress H.R.3.