A Catholic group plans to appeal a federal court’s decision to vacate an abortion-related portion of EEOC pregnancy bias rules in hopes of obtaining a more expansive ruling shielding religious employers from accommodating medically necessary abortions in addition to “purely elective” ones.
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops asked the US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana to temporarily block the EEOC from enforcing that portion of its rules against the religious group as it appeals the court’s decision from May 21.
The group will ask the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to broaden the ...
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