Posted on 04/26/2024 8:59:07 PM PDT by Morgana
Seventeen states are suing the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for unconstitutional overreach after its recent mandate that all employers must offer accommodations for women who get abortions under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA).
Passed last June, the PWFA stipulates that employers must offer workplace accommodations to pregnant women, including assistance such as time off for medical appointments and recovery from childbirth, as well as accommodations related to seating, breaks for food, water and restroom needs, breastfeeding, and miscarriage. However, last week, the EEOC issued a rule clarification stipulating that abortion will be included as a covered “medical condition” within the act.
The coalition of signee states is being led jointly by Tennessee and Arkansas, and also includes Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, and West Virginia.
Their lawsuit contends that the EEOC “hijacked” a pro-family bill meant to offer protections for pregnancies by making it also applicable to abortions, which, it says, “Congress did not authorize.” This, the signees say, “unconstitutionally impairs their interests in protecting their messaging with respect to the primacy of protecting fetal life and the damages caused by abortion.”
“Congress passed the bipartisan Pregnant Workers Fairness Act to protect mothers-to-be and promote healthy pregnancies, and the EEOC’s attempt to rewrite that law into an abortion mandate is illegal,” Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said in a statement. “I’m proud to lead the coalition fighting to protect the rule of law against this unconstitutional federal overreach.”
“An unelected body like the EEOC Commission does not have the authority to rewrite laws passed by Congress,” Alabama Attorney General Marshall also said in a statement. “Congress sought to ensure accommodations on the job to promote the health of pregnant women and their babies. Biden’s EEOC has illegally transformed that bipartisan law into a mandate that employers facilitate abortions. Biden is again violating the law to promote his radical agenda, and we will again stop him.”
Biden is a threat to our Constitutional Republic.
America has become so evil in so many ways. Lord have mercy.
Some are just so desperate to kill babies they stop at nothing
Yes. That is no less than demonic.
If this passes there will be a lot less pregnant workers. Firms will hire less and less women.
They will definitely murder others in order to keep womens speciap protected class legal right to murder another person for any reason they want.
“If this passes there will be a lot less pregnant workers. Firms will hire less and less women.”
Remember Norma McCorvy aka Jane Roe? One of many reasons her lawyers argued she needed an abortion? She was gang raped (she was not) soon to be a single mom who would not be able to get a job because she was pregnant.
Being the early 1970’s yes pregnant women probably were discriminated against. It makes no sense to me that it took until President Clinton to pass a bill to protect them yet Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington push for roe?
Think about it. Now the Democrats are tying to keep women at home barefoot, broke and pregnant.
When I got my first job in the ‘70’s, a physical was required that included a required pregnancy test. I had a coworker that got pregnant twice after being hired. She wasn’t married. They called her to the office and said that pregnancies when unwed were frowned on and if got pregnant again she would be fired.
It was the 70’s.
I doubt that is what they are trying for.
Rather its multiple other goals. Another way to divide men and women. Another way to force a liberal social policy through a business law. Another way to force abortion onto the population. Another way to boost the abortion industry. Another way to go after employers for not hiring women.
Go ahead provide abortions in my state and get ready for your new life in prison
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