Posted on 02/14/2016 8:33:01 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
he “it’s my body and I can do what I want with it†mantra has been carried out to its logical conclusion by selfish women who are shrugging off warnings about drinking during pregnancy. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) recently issued an advisory aimed at combatting Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) a birth defect caused by excessive ingestion of alcohol by women during their pregnancies.
FAS can cause learning disabilities, problems with impulse control, low memory ability, short attention span and impaired judgement as well as lower IQ scores and a lifetime of substandard existence. In short FAS is the cause of a large amount of misery for innocent people whose mother was either too selfish or too dumb to stop drinking while she was pregnant.
So how has this very serious warning been received among its target audience of women who are in their child baring years? Not very well if the reactions posted on social media sites are any indication.
Outraged selfish “feminists†have written these responses:
“The language insinuates that your womb is a Schrodinger’s box and you shouldn’t pour alcohol into it unless you’ve peeked in there to be 100 percent sure the coast is clear.â€
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My mother drank lightly while she was preg with me, and she smoked cigarettes, My posts are a testament to the effect. LOL
Make it a double...you’re drinking for two!
Excessive is the word everyone needs to note.
A woman having a beer with her chili while pregnant every once in a while is NOT going to harm her baby.
It is the constant drinking to get drunk everyday which causes Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
I agree with your statement.
My sister-in-law was a flat outright drunken slob. Sorry, she has no love for me, nor I for her.
From the time she got off work to bedtime, she was plastered.
This continued all during a pregnancy. The baby died. Very sad. The baby was probably not by my brother, but would have been loved anyway.
My dad made a remark about it, she disowned all of us for decades. Now she’s got religion and wants to make up.
Alcoholism is a disease. There are those that drink in moderation, those women will likely never have difficulty.
I don’t think they really know the threshold.
I used to watch after the neighbor’s kids. She’d JUST drink on the weekends and then pump. It took a while to figure out what the heck was going on with the baby. One time, she’d be fine and the next she’d be zoned out. The poor kid was drunk. It’s not just don’t drink during the pregnancy but also when breastfeeding.
Try to forgive her, for your own sake. Not an easy thing to do, I know. But try.
Sorry, b!tches, you are denying human nature. Those evil male patriarchs didn’t do this to you.
I have to think back in England when the water was not reliable, everyone had to drink a beer-like beverage on a daily basis.
The word is excessive. One beer per meal with a meal, would not be bad. However, one beer an hour over the entire pregnancy would be really bad.
Indeed. Why gamble with someone else's life? Any is too much. Just my personal opinion.
lol.
according to the symptoms, it seems all feminists already have FAS.
My mother drank when she was carrying me. I’m a successful conservative family man. She stopped drinking when she was carrying my brother. He’s a rabid brain dead liberal. Just sayin
If someone doesn't care about their own life, why whould that care about another's?
Can someone tell me when a feminist is not outraged? They are always ready to explode over anything.
Your opinion is reckless and dangerous! Nobody knows how much or how little alcohol damages the child’s brain. NO ALCOHOL if you are or could get pregnant is the only way to guarantee your child does not suffer FAS.
You are correct.
And the CDC’s recommendation is that a woman who’s not on birth control should NEVER drink. That *is* stupid.
I hate that I’m agreeing with feminists on anything, but a broken clock is right twice a day.
My German dr recommended 1/2 a beer before bed while I was pregnant (I didn’t) and a full beer a day while nursing. (I did have a few sips of hub’s beer a week. I wasn’t a drinker)
With my daughter, I was upset because I had a glass of wine before I knew I was pregnant. The dr shrugged it off and said that there was no way that this could damage the baby.
The CDC recommendations are excessive and lowers their credibility.
Ironically, the original feminists were very anti-liquor (and anti-abortion too, for that matter).
I knew a child who exhibited all of the fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) symptoms listed. His mother had been in a failed marriage and while carrying her last child drank a lot of beer. She was totally unaware that the child, at age 2-1/2, had unmistakable (to me, a layman) symptoms of FAS. He did poorly in school, could not control his emotions, as an adult could not hold a job, eventually went on SS disability, fell in with a doper crowd, and at the age of 27 was laid out on a lawn (to get his incriminating body out of an apartment) by his druggie cohorts to die of a drug overdose. His new athletic shoes were stolen.
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