Led by Tennessee and Arkansas, over a dozen states are suing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission because they're requiring employers to offer unpaid time off for abortion care.From left, Alabama AG Steve Marshall, Arkansas AG Tim Griffin, and Tennessee AG Jonathan Skrmetti. Photo: Shutterstock/via FOX 16 KLRT on YouTube/TN.govfor how the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, passed in 2022, will be enforced.
As the regulation explicitly states: “This rulemaking does not require abortions or affect the availability of abortion; it simply ensures that employees who choose to have an abortion are able to continue participating in the workforce, by seeking reasonable accommodations from covered employers, as needed and absent undue hardship.”in 2022, anti-abortion lawmakers have been trying to spin it as “radical” for addressing that workers who seek abortion care need protections.
A Better Balance’s co-president, Dina Bakst, called the lawsuit against the EEOC a “bad faith effort to politicize what is a vital protection for the health and economic security of millions of families, and a continuation of the alarming attacks on women’s health and reproductive choice” in a statement shared with Jezebel.