In a victory for religious freedom, a federal judge has canceled a Joe Biden-era Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) rule that forced businesses to bow to the radical abortion agenda.
The rule, cooked up by Biden’s cronies at the EEOC, demanded employers provide abortion-related leave and other practices that trampled the deeply held beliefs of countless business owners, especially Catholics.
Judge Daniel Traynor, serving on the District Court of North Dakota and appointed by President Trump, delivered the knockout blow to Biden’s scheme, ruling that 9,000 Catholic businesses no longer have to comply with the outrageous mandate.
Last year, Judge Traynor issued a preliminary injunction, which he has now made permanent.
In his ruling, Traynor slammed the Biden administration, stating, “The law forces members to choose between expressing sincerely held beliefs and compliance. This harm is irreparable, and upholding constitutional rights always weighs in favor of the public interest.”
The Washington Stand exposed how Biden’s EEOC twisted the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) into a pro-abortion weapon, redefining “pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions” to include everything from abortion to birth control and fertility treatments—moves that spit in the face of Catholic teachings.
Biden’s team didn’t just stop at promoting abortion; they went full-throttle, claiming the law covered “current pregnancy, past pregnancy, potential pregnancy, lactation, use of birth control, menstruation, infertility treatments, endometriosis, miscarriage, stillbirth, or having or choosing not to have an abortion.”