and, karen harned, executive director of the national federation of independent business's small businessal center. let's look at this 1979 law, '78 law. if i put on my glasses, i can see it. it says discrimination on the basis of pregnancy is illegal and pregnant women should be treated the same as all other persons not so affected but similar in their ability or inability to work. sounds pretty straightforward and pretty simple. >> simple until you get into the supreme court and start arguing what the language means. today the arguments really focus primarily on that second clause, how to treat pregnant workers. ups has argued and it argued today that it has basically a pregnancy-blind policy. it offers accommodations to workers whose injuries occur or conditions develop on the job, not off the job. so it's not singling out pregnant workers. they are being treated like all of ups' other workers who have injuries or conditions that develop off the job. it looked at that second clause and said, that's not a free-standing, independent claim to charge discrimination against u.p.s. it is tie