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December 13, 2022
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Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Protects Women but Promotes Abortion
Rachel N. Morrison
National Review Online

As the conclusion of the lame-duck Congress approaches, there is mounting pressure on the Senate to pass the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). On its face, the PWFA fills a gap in employment law, requiring that employers give women (though the act fails to use the word “woman” throughout) reasonable accommodations for “pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions” unless such an accommodation would pose an undue hardship on the employer’s business.

In effect, the act would create a patchwork of nondiscrimination protections in the workplace that will lead to practical problems as employers and employees try to navigate the varying legal obligations and protections for pregnant women under the PDA and the PWFA.
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Ed Whelan fires back ([link removed]) against the critique of originalism made by Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus. In his telling, Marcus' claim to pin the conservative legal theory down and destroy it once and for all is rather premature.
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As Saudi Arabia cozies up ([link removed]) to Xi Jinping, Henry Olsen writes in The Washington Post that "Combating China’s rising influence in the kingdom and throughout the Middle East will force the administration to...emphasize our material security interests over our moral interests."
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Writing for Our Sunday Visitor, Stephen P. White expounds on the effects low institutional trust ([link removed]) has on the American clergy.
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George Weigel on the Vital Legacy of Vatican II

On December 7, George Weigel gave a public lecture on his new book, To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II, at Rome’s Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum), where he has been a visiting professor this semester.

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Stanley Kurtz on Student Study Habits
Stanley was consulted for his expertise in education policy and heavily quoted in a new piece ([link removed]) for The College Fix chronicling the strange finding that most students simultaneously say college is too difficult, yet refuse to study more.
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