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

—  William H. Rehnquist

General Electric Co. v. Gilbert, 429 U.S. 125 (1976) (majority opinion); the ruling allowed GE's employee disability insurance plan to exclude conditions arising from pregnancy.
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