President Joe Biden took a bipartisan law meant to help women and unborn children and made it into another way to hurt the latter.
The Biden administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released its final rules for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act last week, and despite the bill having nothing to do with abortion, the Biden administration made it into a pro-abortion bill. The commission determined that businesses with at least 15 workers must provide women with time off to get an abortion.
The Biden administration effectively took a bill focused on helping pregnant women by ensuring employers provide them with reasonable accommodations to make their work lives more feasible and made it a federal abortion leave law.
If he wins the 2024 presidential election, former President Donald Trump should restore the integrity of this law and ax this abortion mandate.
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act was intended to be a bipartisan law that was pro-woman and holistically pro-life. It earned support from pro-life lawmakers, including Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who called it a pro-life bill. Additionally, Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), who introduced the bill, described it as a proposal that would provide extra bathroom breaks and stools for pregnant women who had to stand on the job, not an abortion leave mandate forced on employers by the federal government.
Instead of this being a way to help protect unborn lives, the Biden administration wants to force businesses run by pro-lifers to provide leave for a life-ending practice even when it goes against their religious values. One might think a Catholic president would care about this, but Biden does not.
If Trump wins, slashing the EEOC’s pro-abortion interpretation of the law would present an easy win. He would help businesses by cutting regulations while protecting religious liberty and unborn children. Doing so would serve multiple GOP constituencies and give Trump yet another pro-life victory in office.
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Trump could use this and other campaign promises to develop a competent abortion reduction agenda.
Trump says he opposes a 15-week national abortion ban, something Congress lacks the votes to pass. However, just because the country won’t have a federal gestational limit doesn’t mean the former president can’t deliver wins for the unborn if afforded a second term. It just means he needs a more innovative approach that primarily targets the demand for abortion, and reversing Biden’s pro-abortion agenda is the perfect place to start.
Tom Joyce (@TomJoyceSports) is a political reporter for the New Boston Post in Massachusetts.