Fox News’s Shep Smith: ‘It’s too much lying and too much Russia and too much smoke’

I know, but there's not any actual coverage to be lost on that front unless you're also going to take away the ability of people with cancer or who need surgeries to take off work by getting rid of FMLA altogether and affecting a lot more than just pregnant women. It's not like anyone is getting paid maternity leave from the government, whether FMLA is paid at all is at the discretion of the employer and whether they pay into short term disability. Which was my point. This is already reality for American women. Go to the pregnancy subreddits and see how many women can't afford to take more than 4-6 weeks. How many women get fired when they try to return from mat leave, or who get suddenly laid off when they announce their pregnancy. It's a lot. I work for a single doctor practice and I only took 6 weeks because I couldn't take FMLA and I couldn't afford to take any more time off, and I live in New England and didn't vote for Trump. My sutures had barely dissolved when I started back at work. You can't lose benefits that you already don't have, and they already voted for him under those circumstances. Because once Trump brings back the coal industry so their baby daddy can stay employed they'll be able to stay home with the kids. Duh. Ugh. -.-'

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