H.R. 7: The Money Behind the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" - OpenSecrets Blog

The bill's main author, Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), has clear support from the anti-abortion side of the debate. His second-largest donor in the first nine months of the 2014 election cycle is the Family Research Council PAC, which gave Smith $5,000.

The 2012 data show support from anti-abortion interests to 85 of H.R.7's 171 cosponsors, with the average donation coming to just over $4,000 per House recipient. Smith was on the high end, taking in $14,800 from anti-abortion interests in the 2012 election cycle.

On the pro-abortion rights side of the fence, though, campaign contributions are coming in fast and furious in the 2014 cycle. Pro-abortion rights groups made donations to 63 different House members through September 2013, with an average donation of around $4,000 per recipient.

In the 2012 cycle, pro-abortion rights interests dispersed significantly more campaign cash per House member than their foes on the other side, with an average donation topping $10,000 per representative.

H.R. 7: The Money Behind the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" - OpenSecrets Blog

3 Reasons You Should Remain Skeptical of H.R. 7 | Center for American Progress

Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 7, deceptively titled the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, the content of which is much broader than its title reflects. The bill includes restrictions that would block insurance coverage for abortion care in both federal programs and private insurance, thus making abortion unavailable for nearly all women in this country. This bill also makes permanent the discriminatory Hyde Amendment, a 1976 appropriations rider that prohibits federal funds from paying for abortion services. Introduced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), H.R. 7 also removes tax credits and deductions for families and small businesses seeking insurance plans with abortion coverage.

3 Reasons You Should Remain Skeptical of H.R. 7 | Center for American Progress

This Anti-Choice Bill Harms Women, Small Businesses, and Doctors -- Help Us Stop It - Center for Inquiry

More on H.R. 7:

HR 7, also known as the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” would create a ban on using federal government funds on health care plans that include coverage for abortion. This means low-income women, civil servants, and women in the military would be forced to pay for abortions on their own.

But the bill doesn’t stop there.

• HR 7 would also punish small businesses whose health care plans include abortion coverage with higher taxes;
• It would raise taxes on women who opt to have an abortion, by eliminating their medical expense deductions;
• And it would prohibit doctors employed by the government from performing abortions.

This Anti-Choice Bill Harms Women, Small Businesses, and Doctors -- Help Us Stop It - Center for Inquiry

Congressman's New Jobs Plan: Deny Women Access To Abortion So They Can Make More Babies | ThinkProgress

",,,carrying pregnancies to term “very much promotes job creation.” Seriously? I have heard som dumb shit come our of the Reich, but I think this one takes the cake,,,

During a debate over an anti-abortion bill currently advancing in Congress, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) suggested that Republicans support restricting access to abortion because it will ultimately benefit the economy if women have more children. Goodlatte noted that carrying pregnancies to term “very much promotes job creation.”

Goodlatte made the comments while presiding over a committee mark-up of the “No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act,” or HR 7, on Wednesday afternoon. That legislation would dramatically restrict women’s access to affordable abortion care by imposing restrictions on insurance coverage and tax credits for the procedure. Goodlatte, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, advanced HR 7 by scheduling it for a full committee mark-up on Wednesday.

Explaining his support for the measure, Goodlatte made both a moral and an economic case for anti-choice laws. “I would suggest that it is very much the case that those of us in the majority support this legislation because it is the morally right thing to do but it is also very very true that having a growing population and having new children brought into the world is not harmful to job creation,” he said. “It very much promotes job creation for all the care and services and so on that need to be provided by a lot of people to raise children.”



Congressman's New Jobs Plan: Deny Women Access To Abortion So They Can Make More Babies | ThinkProgress