Lawmaker slams firefighters' pregnancy rules

D.C. Councilman Phil Mendelson is demanding that the city’s fire department change a policy that he says is discriminatory and unfair to pregnant women, leaving them without health care when they need it most — right before they give birth. “The department is going in the wrong direction,” Mendelson told The Washington Examiner. “They’ve revised a policy [and caused] discrimination against pregnant employees.”