Religious groups led by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops have sued to block a US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission final rule aimed at protecting pregnant workers, arguing it unlawfully included an “abortion-accommodation mandate.”
The EEOC has “shoehorned a mandate that employers across the country knowingly support abortion into a statute explicitly designed to protect the health and safety of preborn babies and their mothers,” the groups said in a complaint filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.
The commission’s regulations, finalized in April, implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act—bipartisan legislation that requires employers ...