my sense is, again, if the ethical cannon says you avoid inpropriety or the appearance, why go there? why do something that makes people throw their hands up saying, oh, he s doing it? that should be the standard. that s what s incomprehensibxre incomprehensible to me. slate manage senior editor dale yeah lithwick. republicans were very clear about their priorities when they took power in the house of representatives. we will find our whole focus will be about job creation, reducing spending and more importantly, changing reform in congress. turns out what they meant by that is they would immediately try to pass bills about abortion. jobs and all that stuff presumably later, we assume. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro.
joining success congresswoman democrat of illinois, chief deputy whip and strange advocate for women s issues. thanks for your time tonight. thanks, rachel. doesn t the government already ban funding for abortion? why do we need the no taxpayer funding for abortion act? well, because this bill actually goes way further. this says that a person whose imprr provides health care but that health insurance policy covers abortions, man or woman, then that employer can t get a tax break. if an individual who buys a policy that provides for abortion cannot get any kind of health care tax deduction if that policy were to cover abortion. so, now it goes into private money and private insurance policies and things that people do on their own. it s it is much further than
more importantly, changing the reform of congress itself. the american people spoke loudly on election day. they said, we want more jobs. want more jobs. jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. the americans are people are saying jobs, j-o-b-s, jobs. funny thing happened on the way to what they re calling job one. they spent last week flexing their new majority on a symbolic repeal of health reform which they called job killing, even though it s no such thing and it, in fact, cuts the deficit which republicans themselves say is how you make more jobs. at least some the time. then republicans turn their attention immediately from that time waster to american women, specifically to american women s uteruses. with not one but two bills designed to make sure the government doesn t do something it doesn t already do, and that s to not spend money on abortion. you may remember last year when president obama signed an executive order saying there would still be no federal
that should be the standard. that s what s incomprehensible to me. slate manage senior editor dale yeah lithwick. republicans were very clear about their priorities when they took power in the house of representatives. we will find our whole focus will be about job creation, reducing spending and more importantly, changing reform in congress. turns out what they meant by that is they would immediately try to pass bills about abortion. jobs and all that stuff presumably later, we assume. after the yearly state of
the hyatt amendment. so this is restricting private health insurance provided privately to individual americans, essentially restricting them from providing coverage for abortions? well, what it does, it doesn t ban the abortion but it says that you can t get any tax credit. i think what it really says is insurance companies don t offer abortion coverage. that s the safe way to go because people won t want to buy that coverage because they won t be able let s say they have a separate health tax account. if they use that money to pay for insurance or pay for abortion, then that will be considered income. i mean, they re getting around it through the tax code in order to prevent ordinary americans the way i read it, it could extend to men who buy those policies as well. do you think this is going to create jobs? well, of course it s not going to create jobs. it s not even on the radar of