House Democrats Suggest Removing Tax-Exempt Status For Anti-Abortion Catholic Churches
Democrat Rep. Jared Huffman (CA) accused the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) of politically weaponizing religion by “rebuking” Democrats who support abortion, and the congressman suggested that these Catholic churches should be punished by losing their tax-exempt status. Huffman said the church was aiming to rebuke “Democrats who support women’s reproductive choice,” a term that obfuscates the actual position of the church by suggesting it is the ability to choose that is opposed and not what is being chosen. The term also ignores the fact that reproduction must have already occurred in order for an abortion to be possible,