Bill Passed to Allow Pregnant Women to Use Handicapped Parking in Oklahoma

posted on May 19 by in the Disability Law, Disability News category

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Legislators in Oklahoma recently passed a bill that will allow pregnant women to get a temporary handicapped parking placard for handicapped parking spaces.

There is much debate about the bill that was brought about by a lady who was seven and a half months pregnant with twins. She complained that she had so many challenges such as trouble walking and lack of sleep that she was unable to go to the grocery store and most places anymore.

As a result, a bill was passed in Oklahoma that will allow all pregnant women the option of getting a doctor’s note and applying for a temporary handicapped parking permit.

This is causing concern for some disabled citizens that say there are already too many people parking in the handicapped parking spaces, and being pregnant is not a disability.

Right now the law only applies to Oklahoma.

2 Comments

oSMONDIA, posted this comment on May 30th, 2010

tHIS IS CRIMINl.. Drs state that pregnancy is not a disability and the legislature of Ok is stating it is. What give them the knowledge to make such a medical decision. If she is having problems she may have other issues that would allow her to get a disiblity sticker….or maybe they need to come up with a different one for pregnancy.

bec small, posted this comment on Jun 4th, 2010

I have MS and when I was semi-mobile with a cane, women with small children or babies parked in the disabled spots to “just run in for a minute”. I was left to park far away. No one in the store even cared that it was happening. If placards are given for “pregnancy” they will most likely use them for handy and close parking even when they don’t really need them. I bet they will even use them to get easy parking when they are going to their exercise classes…

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