{"id":217165,"date":"2020-01-21T10:30:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T16:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=217165"},"modified":"2020-01-20T11:55:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T17:55:42","slug":"senator-bill-prevent-abortions-tax-deductions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/senator-bill-prevent-abortions-tax-deductions\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators introduce bill to prevent using abortions as tax deductions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Senator Mike Lee of Utah introduced a bill on January 9, 2020, to prevent abortions from being tax-deductible. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/442329297\/Abortion-is-Not-Healthcare-Act#from_embed\">Abortion is Not Healthcare Act<\/a> would amend Section 213 of the Internal Revenue Code and make expenses related to abortion ineligible for a medical expense deduction.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the IRS considers abortion to be &#8220;medical care,&#8221; which means taxpayers can include abortions as qualifying out-of-pocket medical expenses on their tax returns. Sen. Lee, along with sixteen co-sponsors of the Abortion is Not Healthcare Act &#8212; including Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), and others &#8212; believe that killing preborn children is not healthcare and therefore should not be tax-deductible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-docs-abortion-healthcare\/\">Pro-life doctors take on pro-abortion medical org: \u2018Abortion is NOT healthcare\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abortion, as can be seen in the video below, is not health care, as true health care has the goal of protecting, preserving, and healing human beings and not purposely killing them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CFZDhM5Gwhk\" width=\"650\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government should not offer tax benefits for a procedure that kills hundreds of thousands of unborn children each year, nor should taxpayers subsidize such practice,&#8221; said Sen. Lee. &#8220;This undermines the truth that all human beings have dignity and worth, and that the purpose of healthcare is to heal and care for them &#8211; not kill them. Our bill would end the preferential tax treatment of abortion and clarify that this gruesome practice is not healthcare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If passed and signed into law, the amendment would apply to taxable years beginning after the enactment date.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We ought not endorse, in our laws or through our money, a practice that undermines the most important, humane principle of health care,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/issue-in-focus?ContentRecord_id=470D73FA-9A8A-4734-BB5D-18E392F90CE2\">wrote<\/a> Sen. 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