Last week, we heard that Republicans had caved to pressure and agreed to remove the insidious "forcible rape" language from their anti-choice H.R. 3, the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act." Yesterday, however, the New York Times reported that the bill had proceeded to a hearing before a House Judiciary subcommittee with the "forcible rape" language still in tow...
Redefining rape to exclude cases in which the woman was drugged or a minor is already inexcusable to all but the most strident anti-abortion activists, but law professor Sara Rosenbaum points out that since H.R. 3 goes after abortion coverage via the tax code, it could mean that the IRS ends up being the agency that decides which rapes count.
