Is pregnancy considered a medical condition?

I honestly thought answering whether pregnancy counts as a "medical condition" would be pretty straightforward.

But I’ve been getting everything from a hard "yes" to people arguing that "medical conditions" only refer to illnesses—and since pregnancy is a natural, healthy process, they say it doesn't qualify.

If you ask me, a medical state is just a binary: you're either sick or you're healthy. So, if pregnancy is a healthy state, then yeah, it's still a medical state.

My late-night Google rabbit holes haven't helped at all, and now I'm starting to wonder if I'm even asking this in the right corner of the internet. I feel like I'm just spinning my wheels here.

Anyone have any thoughts?

Pregnancy is essentially a secondary physiological state, which means it should be viewed as its own distinct medical condition.
Because this "secondary state" is so incredibly complex—considering how the mother's metabolism impacts the fetus and how the baby’s development, in turn, affects the mother—it creates a reciprocal biological loop where both parties' health are inextricably linked. From that perspective, it is fundamentally a medical condition.
The real issue here is that most people mistakenly equate the term "medical condition" exclusively with pathology or disease, when that simply isn't the case.

The issue here is that the interpretation in the first post came from a doctor, not just some random person off the street.

Angela Wright, what you wrote there is a perfectly clear explanation. It’s logical, and honestly, it’s exactly what I was looking for, so thanks. This actually matters because of an ongoing legal case I'm dealing with, and I really need a formal reference to back up your reasoning—something from a named expert, a MD, or a professor, but I can't find a single thing online that fits.

Go ahead and ask a linguist for an explanation if you think they’ll actually have one.

You’ve got a point there. Thanks. 🙂

For everyone who was hanging on for an answer regarding this topic, I finally tracked it down. Here’s the result. Thanks again for the help—you guys were definitely heading in the right direction. 🙂

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.p...61076474178234