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The Supreme Court Case Uniting Pro-Lifers & Pro-Choicers

posted on December 3, 2014

The Daily Beast‘s Emily Shire reports, “Peggy Young will have some surprising legal bedfellows when her landmark case for the rights of pregnant workers is presented before the Supreme Court.” Women’s rights groups and pro-life groups will back Young in her suit. “If you go back to the legislative history [of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act], members of Congress on both sides of the aisle were concerned women would be pressured into abortions if they didn’t have legal protections in the workplace,” Clarke Forsythe, senior counsel for Americans United For Life, said.

Read at The Daily Beast