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Biden Admin to Force Employers to Cover Abortion – Intercessors for America

The Biden administration has been relentless in pushing its abortion agenda. Most recently, they unveiled a plan to force employers to cover abortions, regardless of religious or conscientious beliefs.

From LifeSiteNews. The Biden administration announced a new rule that will force employers to cover abortion under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), trampling upon religious liberty and conscience rights and furthering the White House’s aggressive abortion agenda.

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On Monday, April 15, Biden’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced the “Implementation of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.” The rule is over 400 pages and set to be published Friday, April 19.

According to the summary of the Act, the government will require “a covered entity to provide reasonable accommodations to a qualified employee’s or applicant’s known limitations related to, affected by, or arising out of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless the accommodation will cause an undue hardship on the operation of the business of the covered entity.”

The rule includes abortion and contraception expressly among the things it deems qualify for coverage by employers, mentioning the word “abortion” 348 times.

Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel Julie Marie Blake also condemned the new rule for imposing “pro-abortion regulations on virtually every employer in the country, even those whose religious beliefs dictate that life begins at conception.” …

Republican U.S. Rep. Virginia Fox of Virginia, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce chairwoman, denounced the rule for stretching the application of the Pregnant Workers Act to include abortion.

In a statement, she declared, “Adding this controversial provision into the PWFA is wrong. Period. Abortion is not a medical condition related to pregnancy; it is the opposite. Leave it to the Biden administration to think terminating a pregnancy and ending the life of an unborn child addresses the needs of pregnant workers.” …

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(Excerpt from LifeSiteNews. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Joe Biden, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia)

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