It hit me this morning: why are the families of America’s unborn children being forced to pay over $9 billion dollars in extra taxes each year?

We can expect a full-court press in the next four years to get rid of Roe v. Wade. Part and parcel of the agenda involves neat things like the Laci Peterson Law, which extends legal protections to fetuses unborn children. Ultimately, it’s all about legislating that life begins at conception and that unborn Americans should have the same rights (or lack thereof) as born Americans.

Cool. Because this has important tax implications. To wit – the Federal Government is currently imposing an unfair tax on unborn Americans, a tax that is not only at odds with good sense, it is wrong in the eyes of God®.

It goes like this. According to Census Bureau data, we can expect somewhere in the range of 4.045M births next year. If my math is anywhere close to accurate, that means that as of Dec. 31, 2004, roughly 3,033,750 American women will be blessed by our Lord and Savior® with unborn children. According to American tax law, however, I don’t believe these hard-working families are allowed to claim that unborn child as a dependent, meaning that the Federal Government is in effect charging each expectant family an extra $3,100. This tax on America’s working families is unconscionable, and I urge you to write your Congressional representatives today to insist that they stop placing an unfair burden on America’s families.

If you do the math, unborn Americans are being asked to shoulder a whopping $9,404,625,000 tax bill. That’s 9 BILLION, and it’s wrong. There’s no other way to say it. That’s wrong in the eyes of the Lord®.