A federal court in Louisiana has ruled to protect the rights of a coalition of Catholic ministries from being forced to support employee’s abortions.
Becket Law, a non-profit legal group, represented the United States of Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), an organization of Catholic bishops who are the senior religious leaders of the Catholic Church in the United States.
USCCB challenged the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on enforcing its abortion mandate for over 130 million Americans.
Congress passed the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) in 2022 to protect expectant mothers in the workforce and their unborn babies. The law makes it illegal for employers to deny accommodations like extra restroom breaks and modified work schedules to women who have physical limitations brought on by pregnancy or childbirth.
Throughout the legislative process, the USCCB supported the PWFA’s passage because of the law’s admirable and uncontroversial purpose. The pregnancy law itself does not mention abortion.
But the Biden Administration, which was in charge of enforcing the law, also mandated that employers nationwide must accommodate abortions, including by knowingly allowing their employees to take paid leave to have an abortion and by removing life-affirming workplace policies discouraging abortion.
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