As the Biden campaign continues to push abortion as a primary focus ahead of the November elections, the Biden administration made yet another move to ensure that abortion remains front and center by inserting the issue into the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act—earning a strong rebuke and lawsuit from a group of 17 Republican state attorneys general.
In mid-April, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission made the controversial announcement that it was adding abortion into its draft rules for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, allowing employees to “ask for time off to obtain an abortion and recover from the procedure.”
But critics say the legislation was never intended to address abortion and was merely meant to give pregnant women commonsense accommodations in the workplace, including time off for medical appointments; options to sit down and stand up while…
