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Jan. 12, 2026
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2026 /Standard Newswire/ — In states where abortion is legal, having one is considered tax-deductible “health care” on both federal and state income tax returns. From the CatholicVote Action Center, Americans can send a message to President Donald J. Trump urging him to change that.
Immediately following the 1973 Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade – and without any hearings or votes in Congress – the Internal Revenue Service revised its long-standing definition of deductible health care expenses under §213(d) to include abortion. This amounts to a federal subsidy for abortions in states where abortion is legal.
“This undermines the basic moral consensus, which transcends party lines, that Americans should not be compelled to fund abortion with their tax dollars,” said CatholicVote President and CEO Kelsey Reinhardt. “In his first term, President Trump defended that line clearly and consistently. We are asking him to do so again, and rescind this egregious IRS provision. It has to stop.”
With the annual March for Life in Washington, DC, just days away (Friday, January 23), Reinhardt is calling on Americans to visit the CatholicVote Action Center to send a prewritten email directly to the White House urging the president to act now.
“Abortion is not health care and the IRS has no competency to declare that it is. The code was changed by bureaucrats behind closed doors. Most Americans don’t even know they are subsidizing abortion in this way,” Reinhardt said. “President Trump has the opportunity to correct this awful practice and save lives. We implore him to do so.”
CatholicVote is America’s top Catholic advocacy organization, leading the fight for faith, family, and freedom. Through its popular news digest, The LOOP, emailed daily to roughly half a million subscribers, its Spanish-language equivalent, EL LAZO, a host of social media platforms and other initiatives, CatholicVote’s mission is to inspire every Catholic in America to live out the truths of the Catholic faith in public life.
SOURCE CatholicVote
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