A federal judge in Louisiana has issued a fantastic ruling that puts an end to a disastrous Biden era rule that tried to force employers to cover abortions under the 2022 Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA).
U.S. District Judge David Joseph of the Western District of Louisiana, a Trump appointee, ruled that the PWFA does not include abortion as one of its provisions even though the Biden Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) had tired to claim that abortion is part of the act’s provisions as “healthcare,” CBS News reported.
The fact is, Congress has typically avoided ever adding abortion into federal law because it is so unpopular with half the country. And judge Joseph insisted in his ruling that if Congress had meant for abortion to be included as medical care in the PWFA, it would have stated it directly, not left it to the EEOC to find it between the lines.
Joseph said that if Congress meant for the act to cover abortion they was have “spoken clearly” bak in 2022 “when enacting the statute, particularly given the enormous social, religious, and political importance of the abortion issue in our nation at this time.”
Biden’s EEOC quickly claimed that abortion was part of the newly enacted law and pushed out memos to the states telling them that they MUST force employers to cover abortions under the PWFA. Naturally, that misreading of the act spurred numerous lawsuits against Biden’s out-of-control agency.
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