Posted by machine on March 10, 2011, 12:34 pm, in reply to "Re: Great news!!"
then the question could be raised, why should women work at all if they are going to get pregnant?
I do believe that is one of the reasons they typically get paid less than there male counterparts in the same job position.
In this day and age pregnancy is choice. With very very few exceptions, It's not a condition like the cold, that you can get with out trying/actively trying to avoid.
So why should tax payers have to pay for a teacher that got knocked up? She made the choice, she should bear the consequence, not everyone else.