New laws benefit pregnant workers and breastfeeding parents Verywell Health: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, discussed two recent new bills that President Joe Biden signed into law protecting the rights of pregnant people and nursing parents. “The Pregnancy Discrimination Act prohibited discrimination against pregnant people, but it did not require reasonable accommodations,” she said, noting that the new legislation goes further. |