The Biden-era regulations explicitly required that schools set up a lactation room and made it easier for pregnant students to take leaves of absence. The erasure of these protections, advocates say, would seem to be at odds with Republican claims about the importance of raising families.
"The fact that the Trump administration is rolling back these protections just shows that they don't actually care about pregnant people's lives, even though they claim to be pro-life," said Emma Grasso Levine, senior manager of Title IX policy and programs at the organization Advocates for Youth. "If they actually cared about the rights of women and folks who can get pregnant, they would be cementing protections like these."…
