Illness Quote by Lara Dutta

Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed.

— Chris Smith

Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability

— William Rehnquist

With women composing nearly half the American workforce and increasingly serving as the primary breadwinner for families, we can't afford to treat pregnant women…

— Valerie Jarrett

It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.

— Eliza Bisbee Duffey

Pregnancy takes a huge physical toll on your body. I have many friends who have had babies and many of them require medical help…

— Abigail Tarttelin

For too many women pregnancy is just the start of loneliness and abuse. It is a cruel reality.

— Fay Ripley

I am one of those people for whom pregnancy is an ordeal.

— Kemi Badenoch

“American Health Insurance Companies have classified pregnancy as an illness, so if pregnancy is an illness was the baby-boom a plague?”

— Jayseth Guberman

Being pregnant is a wonderful thing. I have never understood why people make such a big deal of it though.

— Dia Mirza

According to the Western model, pregnancy is a disease, menopause is a disease, and even getting pregnant is a disease. Dangerous drugs and devices…

— Barbara Seaman

Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such.

— Achy Obejas

Pregnancy forces you to put your health first.

— Stephanie Ruhle