Abortion Deductions

by JASmius



As President Reagan once observed, if you tax something, you'll get less of it, and if you subsidize it, you'll get more:

It’s tax time and millions of Americans are looking for extra deductions to get the maximum refund possible. Some Americans may be surprised to know that, if they aborted their baby last year, they’re eligible for a deduction.

Did you know that abortions are apparently eligible for a tax deduction? That appears to be true, so says the IRS.

So what does the IRS say about deducting the cost of killing your child? “You can include in medical expenses the amount you pay for a legal abortion,” it says.

So if you murder your unborn child, that's deductible.  But if your baby dies through no fault of your own, not so much:

Ironically enough, although you can claim abortion as a tax exemption, IRS Publication 501 forbids parents from claiming a stillborn child on their taxes for exemptions. So, in other words, you can receive a tax deduction if you kill the child in the womb. But, if the child is born at birth and dies naturally - no deduction for you.

Which is depraved, because stillbirth and the related procedures therein would seem to fall under the umbrella of obstetrics and maternity, which are unequivocally medical procedures.  Whereas abortion is murder of genocidal proportions perpetrated by quasi-medical means.

It just so happens that Mrs. Hard Starboard and I once suffered a stillbirth fifteen years ago, after which our thoughts were not preoccupied with what tax deduction we could salvage from it.  If only we'd known about the abortion deduction, we could have been "proactive" about the whole thing, right?

That is the designated incentive, after all.  It's a wonder the abortion rate continues to decline, huh?

Exit question: How does the Hyde Amendment fit into all this?