Require equal or greater benefits for pregnancy where abortion is covered
What the document says“Congress should pass a law requiring that to the extent an employer provides employee benefits for abortion, it must provide equal or greater benefits for pregnancy, childbirth, maternity, and adoption.”
The chapter adds that the law should clarify that no employer is required to provide any accommodation or benefit for abortion.
What the document actually says“Congress should pass a law requiring that to the extent an employer provides employee benefits for abortion, it must provide equal or greater benefits for pregnancy, childbirth, maternity, and adoption.”
Say a job plan pays for an abortion. Then it must pay as much for birth.
Some employers help pay for an abortion. The book says they should then help at least as much with birth and adoption.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Executive Order 14182 of January 24, 2025 ends the use of federal funds for elective abortion under the Hyde Amendment and revokes two prior orders. It governs federal money, not what an employer must offer its employees, and it creates no requirement to match abortion benefits with equal or greater benefits for pregnancy, childbirth, maternity or adoption. The law the chapter asks Congress to pass is not in the indexed record. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.