Lawmaker: Pregnant Women Should Get Disabled Parking Rights

how are ticket writers going to determine if someone is in their 3rd trimester? are ticket writers now going to have to go to ob/gyn school and learn how to tell these things?

what a retarded bill

instead of diabled parking they should have a new mommy or pregnant sign up for close parking that is the way it is in Oklahoma they have up close parking just for that....and it don't take away from the disabled...

Raiderfan wrote:

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That's right, keep all the disabled at home, they have no right shopping. That'll keep em off the roads too, I bet you they cause lots of accidents.

Idiot. She was trying to spell out the difference between a true disability such as the loss of the use of your legs and being pregnant. It was mentioned this was ill thought out anyway since pregnant women need the excersize.

You're just trying to get your momma a handicap placard thinking if they pass this the next possible step will be to make bone dry ugly hags a handicap placard for being born with faces that can ruin the vision of anyone within 6 feet of them.

Raiderfan wrote:

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Idiot. She was trying to spell out the difference between a true disability such as the loss of the use of your legs and being pregnant. It was mentioned this was ill thought out anyway since pregnant women need the excersize.
You're just trying to get your momma a handicap placard thinking if they pass this the next possible step will be to make bone dry ugly hags a handicap placard for being born with faces that can ruin the vision of anyone within 6 feet of them.

That was brilliant.

How many women have been pregnant and given birth in this state without handicapped plates?

Beside the fact that it is down right stupid, it will take a lot of government resources (that we don't have the money for) to process the paperwork.

This type of STUPID lawmaking is why we are in the fiscal mess we are in now.

Why don't the folks at the capital stop wasting time on idiotic issues like this and start doing the job they are getting paid HUGE dollars for!

Everyone who thinks this is a HUGE waste of taxpayer money, please e-mail Chuck and let him know.
chuck@chuckdevore.com

Julie P wrote:

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19 pounds isn't that far from the 25-35 pounds recommended weight gain during pregnancy, so obviously "everything" you ate didn't come back up. I gained 40 pounds during my pregnancy because I pigged out. I controlled how much weight I gained very poorly, but it was not beyond my control.

Man I must of pushed your buttons in one of my last comments to you or you just have nothing better to do then follow me around the fourms making dumb comments to me.Yes and I know the normal weight gain through a pregnancy.What are you a doctor now.
Not thats its any of your business but yes everything I did eat came back up and I was eight weeks when it started and I didnt stop tell the day I had my son thank you!!
Try reading up on Zofran its given to people who have cancer who vomit all the time.I was on that throught my whole pregnancy I couldnt even keep water down.Try this one my son was almost 10 pounds so that leaves 9 pound of what ever you want it to be.
Get a life!!

I'm against this for most of the reasons already stated. Being handicapped is not a lifestyle choice.

The author of this bill is pandering to one of so many interest groups. And besides, in the majority of malls in Los Angeles, there's "FAMILY PARKING" next to the handicapped spaces.

What's next -'Black Parking,' Italian Parking," Hispanic Parking?" Parking is first come, first served, and I park in those spaces and wherever I want...except the handicapped spaces.(p.s.- they should increase the fines for the able-bodied folks that park there if they want to raise revenue.)

Do lawmakers really have this much time on their hands?

Raiderfan wrote:

Oh, and by the way, we're in one hell of a mess and while these lawmakers should be finding solutions to this economic BS one of them is writing a stupid a$$ law like this?

Thank you. Lawmakers that think this is a priority should be voted out of office next time around. I've been pregnant (4 babies in 5 years)and walking wasn't a big deal. Handicapped placards are abused enough. Quit making unnecessary laws and enforce the ones that are already on the books.

If overweight people are abusing the hell out of this system, why shouldn't people who legitimately need it get to use it?

Raiderfan wrote:

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That's right, keep all the disabled at home, they have no right shopping. That'll keep em off the roads too, I bet you they cause lots of accidents.

After reading this latest comment, you sound more retarded than I first thought. You must be too stupid to respond to my last question. To generalize about disabled people like this is disturbing, and can only originate from a neanderthal mind. Your a joke and after reading month's of your writing,one can only shake their head at how rediculous you sound. If disabled people have to stay home, disabled minds like your's should be restricted to where they reach.

Raiderfan wrote:

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That's right, keep all the disabled at home, they have no right shopping. That'll keep em off the roads too, I bet you they cause lots of accidents.

I will say it one more time for you....PREGNANCY IS NOT A DISABILITY. This is wasteful legislation, in which the state of California has no business contemplating given our current state of financial hardship, or ever for that matter.

I think that pregnant women should be able to access the parking placard while in their 3rd trimester. All pregnancies are different from eachother and no one has the right to complain about a mother to be abd where she gets to park. I think that these people are jealous and if they had the access to a parking placard, they would be the first ones in line to receive one.

I am disabled and use the handicap parking. First off, as many other have said, anyone with a short term disability can get a temporary parking placard (it's the red one, blue is permanently disabled). If the woman has an underlying condition, get a temp. But if pregant women start parking without placards, how will it be enforced? How does the parking police know who is pregnant and who is cheating by looking at an empty car? Will they have to wait until the driver returns to the car? Let's leave the system as it is. Luckily lawmakers saw this also and this bill died in committee.

If employers made their employees park in the boonies or park and ride etc, this would free up spaces close in. Do away with the disabled parking crap all together.

no no no no. pregnancy is not a handicap. nor is it a reason to get extra attention in any way shape or form. not for parking, not to get ahead of a potty line or seat on the bus. if you are preggers you can walk,stand and park with the rest of us non-handicapped persons.
i just watched a very pregnant lady get to the front of the line at the deal or no deal audition in folsom. she arrived hours and hours after everyone else who had been waiting since dawn. security let her right in. if she can get up there and jump around auditioning she can wait in line. she drove there, walked the mile from the parking lot, waiting in line should have been a piece of cake. biatch could have brought a chair and used the porta potties like everyone else

Ann wrote:

instead of diabled parking they should have a new mommy or pregnant sign up for close parking that is the way it is in Oklahoma they have up close parking just for that....and it don't take away from the disabled...

they have those at the babies R us stores in cali too. i park my patootie there every chance i get. i became a new mommy 18 years ago. that sign has my name all over it.

Mommy Fulling wrote:

I think that pregnant women should be able to access the parking placard while in their 3rd trimester. All pregnancies are different from eachother and no one has the right to complain about a mother to be abd where she gets to park. I think that these people are jealous and if they had the access to a parking placard, they would be the first ones in line to receive one.

You should stop thinking.

Fidget Dan wrote:

Do away with the disabled parking crap all together.

That is not a reasonable option. I need the wider space because I must open my door completely to swing my legs out of the car. I have been in leg braces for 5 years now and sometimes must use a wheelchair. Luckily I can walk short distances and don't need a wheelchair ramp yet. Doing away with disabled parking would force me to pull into the middle of two stalls to open my door. And I am sure that would tick you off, too.