Republicans (including Senators Cruz and Rubio) are backing a bill that could make it legal to fire single women because they’re pregnant.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/s1598/text
The text of the bill states:
... Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Federal Government shall not take any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or partially on the basis that such person believes or acts in accordance with a religious belief or moral conviction that marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman, or that sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage.
...
Senate Bill 1598, Section (3)(a), emphasis added.
Thus, under the terms of the bill an unmarried woman who gets pregnant could be fired. Welcome to the new stone age.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/s1598/text
The text of the bill states:
... Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Federal Government shall not take any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or partially on the basis that such person believes or acts in accordance with a religious belief or moral conviction that marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman, or that sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage.
...
Senate Bill 1598, Section (3)(a), emphasis added.
Thus, under the terms of the bill an unmarried woman who gets pregnant could be fired. Welcome to the new stone age.
