Re: Job problem due to Pregnancy, was Re: Villain of the Week:Bolder Technology Corp

[J. van Baardwijk]

At 11:21 10-2-01 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:

>At 05:47 PM 2/4/01 +0100, Sonja wrote:
> >I'm not against legal protection for pregnant women (In case you might
>have read
> >that into my statement). But in my special case it hurt more then it saved.
>
>Well...... it was just one Libertarian thought......   :)
>
>I'd argue, however, that there are a lot of government regularions/programs
>that do a lot of hurting as well.   Perhaps its possible that since women's
>rights has advanced so much as of late, that the pregnancy-laws are no
>longer necessary, so as to avoid hurting women like yourself?

Now there is a bad idea. Women are protected only because we have those 
laws and the means to force an employer to obey those laws. If we drop 
those laws, we'll be right back where we were 40 years ago: women would get 
fired from their job as soon as they announce their pregnancy.


Jeroen

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