# Plain Language Summary: Abortion Is Not Health Care Act of 2023

This bill would change the tax code to prevent people from deducting abortion expenses as medical costs on their taxes. Currently, the tax system allows people to deduct certain qualified medical expenses—things like doctor visits, prescriptions, and hospital bills—if those expenses exceed a certain threshold. This bill would specifically exclude abortion from that list of deductible medical expenses, meaning if you pay for an abortion out of pocket, you wouldn't be able to count that money toward your medical deduction.

The practical impact would be relatively small for most people because the medical expense deduction only helps if your total medical costs are quite high. You can only deduct medical expenses that exceed 7.5% of your adjusted gross income, which means most people don't benefit from this deduction at all. However, for those who do itemize deductions and have significant medical expenses, this change would mean any abortion costs couldn't be included in that calculation. For example, if someone had $15,000 in medical bills in a year and $2,000 of that was for an abortion, they could only count $13,000 toward their deduction under this bill.

The bill would apply to tax years beginning after it becomes law, if it passes. It's worth noting this is primarily a symbolic measure—the financial impact on individual taxpayers would likely be minimal since relatively few people use the medical expense deduction to begin with. The bill's main effect would be to formally exclude abortion from the tax code's definition of deductible medical expenses.

Abortion Is Not Health Care Act of 2023

Biggs, Andy

Abortion Is Not Health Care Act of 2023 This bill prohibits a tax deduction for medical expenses paid for an abortion.