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What price can be placed on a precious heartbeat? Rates vary, starting at $200.00 Talk to your CPA.

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With the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, state Republicans have rushed to wed two of their favorite policy agendas, tax breaks and forced births.

As of July 30, 2022, the Georgia Department of Revenue board has confirmed that in Georgia, an embryo with a heartbeat is a person and that person is tax-deductible for $3000.00.

From the Daily Beast:

Georgia’s Department of Revenue has announced its residents can claim embryos as dependents on their state taxes just weeks after an appeals court ruled to redefine “natural person” to include the unborn.

In a press release issued Monday, the department confirmed that in light of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, along with the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upholding Georgia’s “heartbeat” abortion law, “the department will recognize any unborn child with a detectable human heartbeat… as eligible for the Georgia individual income tax dependent exemption.”[...]

The taxpayer may claim a dependent personal exemption… in the amount of $3000 for each unborn child.”

The department states that “similar to any other deduction claimed on an income tax return,” taxpayers must provide “relevant medical records or other supporting documentation… if requested by the department.”

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I don’t know what being audited for proof of an embryo would look like, but here we are.

While Georgia offers $3000.00 for a heartbeat, Michigan values the same sound at $200.00.

Georgia’s policy comes after Michigan House lawmakers previously passed a $200 tax credit for fetuses after 12 weeks gestation in 2021.

Republican lawmakers in Congress introduced a bill in January that would give child tax credits to unborn children starting at fertilization, and introduced a second bill in mid-July that would allow child support payments to be issued during pregnancies.

The federal child tax credit bill allows credits to be issued in cases of miscarriages or stillborn births, but not abortions, specifying there’s no tax benefit in cases where the unborn child died as “a result of an induced abortion or any other act that was intended by the mother to cause the death of the unborn child,” excluding ectopic pregnancies.

Georgia’s policy wouldn’t apply to anyone who gets an abortion within the state—as its six-week abortion ban means any embryo would be aborted before it meets the criteria for a tax credit—but the Department of Revenue has not yet responded to a request for comment on whether it would apply to miscarriages or when a person travels out of state for an abortion after there’s cardiac activity.

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With each state in the Union determining when life begins, there will be myriad unforeseen legal and tax complications.

NPR's A Martinez talks with Carliss Chatman, a law professor at Washington and Lee School of Law, about fetus personhood laws as a new frontier in legal battles over reproductive rights.

CHATMAN:

 The 14th Amendment defines that a person is a citizen when they are born. And it kind of is implied to me in the 14th Amendment that they're referring to birth being when life begins. And so if we change that, you're changing federal law and state law at the same time. And I don't know how that is sustainable.

You know, it could work the other way. We've got women who are now talking about going from Texas to New York or New Mexico to have an abortion. But if Texas passed a fetal personhood law, why wouldn't a pregnant person then move to Texas so they can get tax deductions and so that they can get the other benefits of it now being two people at the point of conception?

So I think it's a legal quagmire that people are not thinking through. I don't know how it is sustainable to have two different definitions of people, human people, throughout the country.

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Clearly, state Republicans believe this new frontier of questions that have vexed and taxed humankind for millennia, are best left to state legislatures and certified public accountants.


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