{"id":1023312,"date":"2021-11-17T12:14:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T17:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1023312"},"modified":"2021-11-17T12:14:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T17:14:26","slug":"progressive-cities-give-paid-leave-to-employees-who-get-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/progressive-cities-give-paid-leave-to-employees-who-get-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Cities Give Paid Leave to Employees Who Get Abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprogressive-cities-give-paid-leave-to-employees-who-get-abortions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1023312&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"31.375\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Portland, Pittsburgh, Boston unanimously pass paid time off post-abortion<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1343393416-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1343393416-scaled-e1635450626783.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1343393416-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1343393416-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1343393416-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1343393416-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1343393416-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1343393416-1400x934.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tA pro-choice activists in Chicago. (Photo by Scott Olson \/ Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/patrick-hauf\/\" title=\"Posts by Patrick Hauf\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Patrick Hauf<\/a> \u2022 November 17, 2021 12:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"75.588958333333\">\n<p>A growing number of progressive cities are quietly expanding their paid leave policies to cover women who get abortions.<\/p>\n<p>The Portland City Council last month expanded its three-day paid bereavement leave to cover women who experience &#8220;pregnancy loss,&#8221; a category that includes abortion, miscarriage, and stillborn delivery. The Pittsburgh City Council enacted a nearly identical proposal a month prior. The Boston City Council in September expanded its 12-week paid parental leave policy to include women and their partners after an abortion. All three plans were passed unanimously.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic lawmakers across the country are pushing to maximize abortion protections as the Supreme Court prepares to take up a historic challenge to <em>Roe<\/em> v. <em>Wade<\/em>. Last month, Illinois passed a bill that will allow minors to get abortions without informing their parents. And the House of Representatives passed a bill in September that would codify <em>Roe <\/em>into law.<\/p>\n<p>The paid leave plans appear to be the first of their kind, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2021\/10\/25\/portland-provides-bereavement-leave-for-employees-after-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the Guttmacher Institute&#8217;s Elizabeth Nash. Boston councilwoman Lydia Edwards (D.) said the expansion bill, which she cosponsored, is &#8220;an acknowledgment in modernizing our parental leave laws.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Every member of the Boston and Pittsburgh city councils is a Democrat, as are the mayors of all three cities. Oregon city council members have no party affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>Terry Schilling, the president of the American Principles Project, said that Democrats who push these policies undercut their own arguments about abortion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Supporters of abortion often claim it is a medical procedure like any other and that it shouldn&#8217;t be treated any differently than typical health care,&#8221; Schilling told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;So it&#8217;s somewhat surprising to see these cities categorizing abortion as a loss of pregnancy. Why should someone need time away from work if abortion were simply a routine operation?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats could soon push for similar leave expansions at a federal level. Rep. Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) and Sen. Tammy Duckworth (Ill.) in July proposed a bill that would require employers to establish a three-day paid leave for women who experience pregnancy loss. Neither office responded to a request for comment on whether this leave would include women who get abortions.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Portland, Pittsburgh, Boston unanimously pass paid time off post-abortion  A pro-choice activists in Chicago. 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