Don’t Be Fooled by a Child Tax Credit for Pregnant Moms
It's about establishing a framework for fetal personhood laws.
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Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) has proposed expanding the monthly child tax credit to pregnant people, which sounds like a great idea from a bird’s eye view. It’s actually just the latest disingenuous conservative ploy to establish a fetus as a person under federal law, thereby setting the stage for a total ban on abortion from conception.
The Biden Administration sent up to $300 per child each month to most families for six months as a part of the pandemic stimulus legislation. The cash influx lifted an estimated 3 million children out of poverty. Piggybacking on that, Reps. Lamborn and Jason Smith (R-MO) and Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) introduced the Child Tax Credit for Pregnant Moms Act, which seeks to recognize a fetus as a child under federal tax law. Instead of working to restart the monthly tax-credits (proposed in the stalled Build Back Better legislation), the Republican framework will give pregnant people, specifically women, monthly payments during their pregnancy, and set the stage for abortion to be considered murder under the law.
In this bill’s framework, an eligible tax payer is “the mother who carries or carried such a child in the womb and is the biological mother of such child or initiated the pregnancy with the intention of bearing and retaining custody” or the husband on a joint tax return with the mother. The bill would open up a $2,000 annual tax credit.