Biden Administration ‘Hijacks’ Pregnant Workers Law to Make Employers Facilitate AbortionsKatherine Hamilton 8 Aug 2023
The Biden administration is working to transform a bipartisan effort to support pregnant women in the workplace into a rule that would make employers facilitate their employees’ abortions.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced on Monday that it has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, outlining changes to the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. The act was passed into law as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (pg. 1,626) and requires employers with 15 or more workers to accommodate the “pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition” of a “qualified employee.”
The law, which went into effect on June 27, authorized the EEOC to create regulations that “provide examples of reasonable accommodations addressing known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions” a year after the law’s enactment. The EEOC scheduled its proposed regulations for publication in the Federal Register on Friday where the public will have 60 days to comment.
The unpublished proposed regulations include abortion as part of pregnancy outcomes, despite the original legislation mentioning nothing about ending the lives of unborn babies.
“The list in the regulation for the definition of ‘pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions’ includes current pregnancy, past pregnancy, potential pregnancy, lactation (including breastfeeding and pumping), use of birth control, menstruation, infertility and fertility treatments, endometriosis, miscarriage, stillbirth, or having or choosing not to have an abortion, among other conditions,” the proposal reads.
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