The USCCB praised the ruling. “We have said from the start that abortion has no place in the pro-life, pro-woman Pregnant Workers Fairness Act,” spokeswoman Chieko Noguchi said in a statement, adding, “We’re grateful the court has agreed and look forward to full and permanent respect for our rights and this law’s noble purpose.”
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) became law in June of 2023, with the goal of ending pregnancy discrimination by filling in the legal gap between the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA). Pro-life groups, including the USCCB, initially supported the act. After its passage, however, the Biden administration’s EEOC declared that abortion must be included in the “pregnancy-related medical conditions” that the PWFA ensures are covered.
The USCCB, along with other groups, such as the Catholic University of America, sued to block this pro-abortion decision, represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. U.S. District Judge David C. Joseph ruled that the PWFA was not originally meant to include abortion. “If Congress had intended to mandate that employers accommodate elective abortions under the PWFA, it would have spoken clearly when enacting the statute, particularly given the enormous social, religious, and political importance of the abortion issue in our nation at this time,” he said. He added that the government “failed to include a broad religious exception” in the EEOC’s abortion mandate, and that the USCCB “demonstrated a substantial likelihood of success on their claims of statutory and constitutional overreach.” […]
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