Decision Curbs Biden Administration’s Overreach

WASHINGTON — National Right to Life applauds last night’s decision by U.S. District Judge David Joseph striking down a regulation from the Biden administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that sought to force employers to accommodate elective abortions under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA).

Judge Joseph found that the EEOC had “exceeded its statutory authority.” Under the Biden administration, the EEOC classified abortion as a “related medical condition” under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.

Judge Joseph wrote, “[A]ny analysis of the Final Rule must begin with the presumption that Congress’s decision not to include any reference to abortion in the PWFA was intentional.”

The following is a statement from Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life:

This court decision is a victory not only for women and their preborn children but also for the rule of law. 

The Biden administration overstepped and, in an act of aggressive overreach, used a law aimed at protecting women in order to push a pro-abortion agenda that permeated all levels of the Biden administration. 

The Biden administration crossed the bright line that divides the branches of government and deliberately subverted Congress’s intent when it passed the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. The court’s ruling restores the original aim of the law and is a slap on the wrist for an administration that placed partisanship over people and an extreme abortion agenda over the law.

Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates, is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. NRLC works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide and euthanasia.