Something fun to worry about, amid our ongoing cavalcade of horrors: the prospect of the Trump administration making it easier to discriminate against those who are pregnant and also unmarried, under the guise of “religious freedom.”
about a rule newly proposed by Trump’s Department of Labor, supposedly to “clarify the scope and application of the religious exemption” to the Equal Opportunity Clause. “The proposed rule ensures that conscience and religious freedom are given the broadest protection permitted by law,”press release by the department, ominously. This is bad news for a wide array of marginalized workers, particularly people who are LGBTQ.
Another implication is that it threatens to cast unmarried pregnant people into a netherland of legal uncertainty, the absoluteplace they want to be. Weinberg spoke to Leila Abolfazli, director of federal reproductive rights for the National Women’s Law Center: Abolfazli adds that the proposal is particularly insidious as it would allow employers to use their religious beliefs to engage in hiring practices that would otherwise be banned as sex-based discrimination. This could be used to target pregnant women who are not married, as employers could claim sex out of wedlock violates their religion.
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