Professors Sue Biden Admin Over Abortion Rule: 'Pregnancy Is Not a Disease'
Newsweek reached out to the DOE via email for comment.The Biden administration released the new regulations on April 19, expanding the interpretation of Title IX to protect students who become pregnant, terminate a pregnancy, or are recovering from a pregnancy.The DOE said that the expansion will "advance Title IX's promise of ensuring that no person experiences sex discrimination, including sex-based harassment or sexual violence, in federally funded education." The regulations are set to go into effect on August 1.As part of those regulations, federally-funded schools and universities are to excuse students who miss class to terminate their pregnancies "for as long as the student's physician deems medically necessary." But Bonevac and Hatfield said they'd only grant those absences if an abortion was medically necessary, arguing that "Pregnancy is not a disease, and elective abortions are not 'health care' or 'medical treatment' of any sort.'""They are purely elective procedures, and I will not accommodate an act of violence against the most vulnerable and defenseless members of the human family," the professors said.They also pointed out that Texas has outlawed and criminalized abortion in all circumstances unless the mother's life is in danger, and thus, they would not be "complicit in these crimes" by excusing students to seek an illegal abortion in Texas.The state banned all abortions except to save the life of the pregnant patient after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.
