No Employer Should be Forced to Participate in Abortion, Says Bishop Rhoades

| 04/19/2024

By: The Good Newsroom

“It is indefensible for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to twist the law in a way that violates the consciences of pro-life employers by making them facilitate abortions”

Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, right, smiles during a November 15, 2022, session of the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore.
Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, right, smiles during a November 15, 2022, session of the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
WASHINGTON — “No employer should be forced to participate in an employee’s decision to end the life of their child,” Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee for Religious Liberty said today, in response to newly released regulations by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The regulations implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which itself provides helpful accommodations to pregnant women in the workplace. The EEOC, however, has defied Congress’s intent and added a mandate for employers, including religious employers, to provide accommodations, such as leave time, for abortion.
 
Said Bishop Rhoades, “The bipartisan Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, as written, is a pro-life law that protects the security and physical health of pregnant mothers and their preborn children. It is indefensible for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to twist the law in a way that violates the consciences of pro-life employers by making them facilitate abortions. No employer should be forced to participate in an employee’s decision to end the life of their child.”
 

The USCCB submitted formal comments to the EEOC in September 2023 (available here) when the federal agency proposed these regulations.

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