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From the time it proposed regulations to implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act to when it issued a final rule earlier this month, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received approximately 54,000 comments urging it to exclude abortion from the definition of “pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.”
The EEOC did not oblige.
And now, 17 states are suing.
Vin Gurrieri at Law360 reports that the plaintiffs allege that the “EEOC unconstitutionally exceeded the PWFA’s limits by taking the stance in final regulations published April 19 that the law encompasses abortion.”
Specifically, the plaintiffs allege that “a bare 3-2 majority
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