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The USCCB autumn general assembly in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 11, 2019. Credit: Christine Rousselle/CNA.

Catholic President Joe Biden’s administration interprets another law to support abortion.

By Matt Lamb, LifeSiteNews, Aug 9, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — New regulations from the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) would require religious employers to allow employees to have abortions and take contraception.

The proposed regulations, which are open for comment this Friday, come after President Joe Biden signed the legislation in December 2022. At the time, some pro-life groups warned that the law could violate the religious freedom of employers. Despite these objections, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) supported the legislation. The USCCB’s support was specifically cited in the introduction to the proposed regulations.

The regulations would require employers to protect an employee’s “use of birth control” and “having or choosing not to have an abortion.” This means, for example, that a Catholic high school could be sued if it fired a teacher who shared that she had recently aborted her baby. It does not require an employer to pay for someone’s abortion. …