{"id":2018959,"date":"2023-09-01T03:18:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T07:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-sneaks-pro-abortion-policy-into-pregnant-workers-fairness-act\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T03:21:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T07:21:38","slug":"biden-admin-sneaks-pro-abortion-policy-into-pregnant-workers-fairness-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-sneaks-pro-abortion-policy-into-pregnant-workers-fairness-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin includes pro-choice policy in Pregnant Workers Fairness Act."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fbiden-admin-sneaks-pro-abortion-policy-into-pregnant-workers-fairness-act%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=2018959&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 class=\"article-content\">\n<p><strong>How can Washington bureaucrats\u2063 take a law that could \u200dprevent abortions and turn it into an instrument to encourage them? When the pro-abortion Biden \u2062administration is writing the regulations, that\u2019s \u2064how.<\/strong> At least, that\u2019s a possible \u2064outcome regarding the Pregnant Workers Fairness \u2064Act (PWFA).<\/p>\n<p>That law, passed as\u200d an amendment to last year\u2019s omnibus spending bill, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-sneaks-pro-abortion-policy-into-pregnant-workers-fairness-act\/\" title=\"Biden Admin includes pro-choice policy in Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.\">gave pregnant women\u2063 common-sense rights<\/a> in the workplace. Similar \u2063to\u200d the process \u200coutlined in the Americans with Disabilities Act,\u2062 the PWFA\u200c requires most employers to\u200b make reasonable accommodations for their \u2062workers\u2019 pregnancies, so \u200dlong as \u2062those accommodations do not create an undue burden on the business.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1107638563\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a0be4f5bdaf15d45825b37b17bfcb0ff fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a0be4f5bdaf15d45825b37b17bfcb0ff\"><\/div>\n<p>The law will give \u2064pregnant workers\u200d the right to, for instance, take more\u200b frequent bathroom \u2063breaks or carry \u2062water with them at \u2062their job site. The measure seems like a common-sense,\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-carolina-governor-says-hell-veto-pro-life-bill-prohibiting-abortion-after-first-trimester\/\" title=\"NC Governor to Veto Pro-Life Bill Banning Late-Term Abortions\">pro-family measure<\/a>, one \u2064that both\u2062 sides of the\u200b partisan divide can support as a way to make life a little easier for pregnant workers and, in so doing, perhaps \u200cdiscourage some from considering abortion as an option. \u200cThat is until the Biden administration got involved.<\/p>\n<p>When \u200dthe\u2062 federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently\u200b released\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/public-inspection.federalregister.gov\/2023-17041.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proposed rules<\/a>\u00a0implementing the PWFA, it included\u2064 abortion\u200b as one of the \u201crelated medical conditions\u201d covered by the act. If the proposal gets finalized and abortion becomes subject to the PWFA, most employers will have to give their workers leave\u2063 to obtain an abortion or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-ways-the-equality-act-could-damage-religious-freedom-in-america\/\" title=\"4 Ways The \u2018Equality Act\u2018 Could Damage Religious Freedom In America\">abortion-related services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, while there has been a great deal of attention paid \u200dto the\u2063 Biden administration\u2019s abortion tourism policy \u200cfor the military \u200c\u2014\u200c and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2023\/06\/22\/tommy-tuberville-military-promotions-abortion-protest-right\/70341726007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sen. Tommy \u200bTuberville\u2019s fight\u2062 against it<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 it\u2063 appears\u200d Washington bureaucrats \u2064are now poised\u200c to push something similar\u200d on the entire American workforce, \u200deffectively by executive fiat.<\/p>\n<p>Worse yet, this \u201cabortion vacation\u201d\u2063 mandate could also apply to \u2062religious organizations and entities. During consideration of the PWFA in Congress\u200b last December, Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., offered a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.congress.gov\/amendment\/117th-congress\/senate-amendment\/6577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one-paragraph amendment<\/a>\u00a0that would\u2064 have \u200bexempted religious entities from any PWFA provision violating their faith. Despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-hawley-catches-bidens-national-archives-nominee-calling-gop-stupid\/\" title=\"Sen. Hawley Catches Biden\u2019s National Archives Nominee Calling GOP \"Stupid\"\">common-sense nature<\/a> of \u200cthis\u2063 provision, 53 senators\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_votes\/vote1172\/vote_117_2_00414.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voted the amendment down<\/a>. Now, the EEOC\u2019s proposed rule has officially put religious liberty in\u200c jeopardy for countless churches and religious groups.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-cd93d65357f940d8541b701d29567962 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-cd93d65357f940d8541b701d29567962\"><\/div>\n<p>This new proposed regulation \u200bcomes despite the \u200dfact that the PWFA\u2019s sponsors have\u2062 stated the bill had nothing\u2063 to do with abortion. Sen.\u200d Bob \u2063Casey, D-Penn., said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/117\/crec\/2022\/12\/08\/168\/191\/CREC-2022-12-08-senate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on \u200cthe \u200bSenate floor \u200dlast\u2064 December<\/a>\u00a0that under the measure, \u201cthe \u2062EEOC could not \u200d\u2014 could \u200cnot \u2014 issue any \u200bregulation that requires abortion leave, nor does the act permit the EEOC to require employers \u2063to provide abortions in violation of state law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even though the lead Democratic co-sponsor of the bill explicitly stated that it provided no such authority to the EEOC to require abortion leave, the\u2062 commission put out a proposal that would do precisely that. For all their talk of protecting \u201cour democracy,\u201d the left never misses an opportunity to use the powers \u200bof government to make unilateral policy decisions when they decide it is in \u2063our\u200c best interest. As it has on so many other occasions, the \u200cBiden administration went out of its way to curry favor with the radical left \u2064\u2014 in this case, Planned Parenthood and its like-minded \u200dcronies, who want to\u2063 insert abortion into every issue and conversation.<\/p>\n<p>This is, of course, all part of a pattern for the Biden administration, which has spared no effort to ingratiate itself with the\u2063 radical abortion lobby over the past two \u200cyears. In addition to using taxpayer dollars for service members\u2019 abortion travel, the Biden administration has also\u200b been fighting to put abortion pills \u2062in retail pharmacies to allow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/life\/commentary\/biden-fda-move-turn-local-pharmacies-abortion-clinics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dangerous, at-home, do-it-yourself\u200c procedures<\/a>. So it should come as no surprise that the executive branch now\u200c wants to force more radical abortion \u2063policies on American workers through the bureaucratic \u201cinterpretation\u201d of a law meant to help pregnant mothers and babies in \u200dthe\u200c workplace.<\/p>\n<p>That such a proposed \u200cpolicy would come about as a result of the \u2064federal bureaucracy rather than be debated, deliberated, and passed into law by the\u2064 American people\u2019s representatives in Congress should come as no small \u200csurprise either. Despite all of its genuflection to the likes of Planned Parenthood and others, the radically pro-abortion Biden administration has yet to reconcile itself to the reality that very few Americans are anywhere near as\u2064 radical as they are\u2062 on the subject. For example, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/only-on-ap-us-supreme-court-abortion-religion-health-2c569aa7934233af8e00bef4520a8fa8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2021 AP-NORC<\/a>\u00a0poll found \u2064that 65 percent percent of Americans\u200d believe \u200babortion should be illegal in the second trimester, and 80 percent said it should be illegal \u200din the third trimester. A more\u2063 recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/maristpoll.marist.edu\/polls\/abortion-rights-in-the-united-states\/#:~:text=66%25%20say%20abortion%20should%20only,the%20first%20trimester%20of%20pregnancy.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2023 Marist poll<\/a>\u00a0showed similar \u2064results, \u2062with nearly two-thirds of Americans saying that \u201cabortion\u200c should only\u200b be allowed, at most, within\u2064 the first three months during pregnancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-7b1a72b55e952cff21ef86d172513c6c fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-7b1a72b55e952cff21ef86d172513c6c\"><\/div>\n<p>One can only imagine what those polling numbers would look like if \u200dthe same sample of people were\u200b asked whether a law intended to help pregnant mothers in the workplace \u200cshould be contorted\u2062 by a group \u2063of politically driven bureaucrats to force \u2064employers to provide abortion vacations.<\/p>\n<p>Supporting pregnant workers does not \u200chave to become \u200centangled with abortion or undermine the religious liberty of church-based organizations. The Biden administration should rethink its ideological\u2063 approach to \u2064this\u200c issue, and the EEOC should withdraw this\u200b misguided portion of its proposed \u200brules implementing the PWFA.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-290177e7400b1d67d8c6d48812db22b7 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-290177e7400b1d67d8c6d48812db22b7\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can Washington bureaucrats twist a law meant to prevent abortions into one that promotes them? The pro-abortion Biden administration&#8217;s involvement in writing regulations for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) could lead to such an outcome. This amendment, included in last year&#8217;s omnibus spending bill, raises concerns about its potential consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":2018960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}