I'm with the opponents of the bill who point out that exercise is good for most pregnant women, and that those women who develop health problems during pregnancy already can qualify for temporary handicapped parking status.
But we have another opponent of the bill. And while I agree with what she says, I think this is the last person on earth who ought to be saying it:
Helen Grieco, executive director of the California chapter of the National Organization for Women, said the bill inadvertently could send the wrong societal message.
"It's very much a normal part of a woman's life — we have children," Grieco said. "So we've always been troubled by framing pregnancy as a disability."
This from somebody who heads an organization that frames pregnancy as such a dreadful, life-destroying thing that without access to immediate "cure" of the horrible disease via abortion, women are helpless, disenfranchised non-participants in society who can't even begin to function at all, much less make it from their cars to the supermarket.
Look, Grieco, riddle me this. Is pregnancy a perfectly normal thing women can cope with or not? Pick one, okay?
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