FIRST IN THE DAILY SIGNAL: Republican congresswomen are calling on the Equal Employment Alternative Fee to revise its proposed rule permitting for abortions to be coated within the Pregnant Employees Equity Act.
In a letter first obtained by The Every day Sign, Congresswomen Virginia Foxx of North Carolina and Mary Miller of Illinois wrote to EEOC Chairwoman Charlotte Burrows that the proposed rule titled “Laws to Implement the Pregnant Employees Equity Act” defines “‘being pregnant, childbirth, or associated medical circumstances’ to incorporate ‘having or selecting to not have an abortion.’”
The EEOC should not embrace abortion within the last rule, the congresswomen warned.
“Abortion isn’t a medical situation associated to being pregnant; it’s the reverse,” the letter stated. “It terminates the being pregnant, tragically ending the lifetime of an unborn little one. Equally, abortion isn’t associated to childbirth; it ends the opportunity of childbirth.”
“Both Chair Burrows and the whole thing of the EEOC have misplaced their studying glasses or they merely wouldn’t have a grasp on the English language,” Foxx informed The Every day Sign. “Nowhere within the Pregnant Employees Equity Act are there provisions that permit abortions and abortion companies to be put within the specific lane. The EEOC higher keep in its personal lane, respect congressional intent, and situation a last rule that’s in direct alignment with statutory textual content.”
“The Biden administration is dedicated to betraying the sanctity of life by pushing insurance policies that undermine the rights of the unborn,” Miller added. “Because the mom of seven youngsters and grandmother of 20, I’m deeply dedicated to defending life. I’ll proceed to battle in opposition to the Biden administration and the novel abortion business to guard susceptible youngsters from the pro-abortion agenda from the Left.”
The letter reminds the EEOC that Congress selected to not embrace the time period “abortion” or “abortion companies” within the authentic legislation.
“EEOC can’t add such a controversial provision to the legislation that Congress omitted,” the congresswomen wrote. “The U.S. Supreme Court docket’s resolution in Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Well being Group holding there isn’t any constitutional proper to an abortion was handed down a mere six months earlier than the PWFA was enacted. Congress was properly conscious of the continued nationwide debate over abortion and will have included the time period within the legislation if it so selected. Its absence speaks volumes.”
They argue that the Pregnant Employees Equity Act will assist “guarantee pregnant employees obtain cheap, sensible lodging within the office.”
“As such, EEOC’s last rule on the PWFA should conform with the statutory textual content and congressional intent,” the letter stated. “This would come with eradicating abortion from the rule. The rule should even be workable for employers who should implement it. We sit up for EEOC making substantial modifications to the proposed rule in order that the ultimate rule doesn’t transcend the textual content of the PWFA and might be fairly carried out by employers.”
The EEOC didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark from The Every day Sign.
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