This is common sense really, We know that alcohol affects a woman and the baby when she is pregnant
It'd be awesome if we could test this using time travel on only one subject.
Imagine that, complete control.
This just in smoking while pregnant is dangerous for the baby.
read the thread title as "light drinking in progress" like scientists developed the ability to drink light
i need to stop wandering the main page these titles get cut off often
IT WAS A DIFFERENT TIME THEN WE DIDNT KNOW
Okay now we've scientifically proven it... and still nothing will be done.
It'll still be morally and socially acceptably as the right of the mother to sabotage her child's health. I don't see this changing anything until society changes a long time from now.
Offhand, I can't think of any reason why a pregnant woman would want to ingest alcohol, which is a poison to humans, in any amount. I suppose there might be a medicine or something, but that would be under a doctor's care and in controlled doses.
You have to be a real alcoholic to not be able to skip drinking for 9 months.
[QUOTE=scout1;38457848]Okay now we've scientifically proven it... and still nothing will be done.
It'll still be morally and socially acceptably as the right of the mother to sabotage her child's health. I don't see this changing anything until society changes a long time from now.[/QUOTE]
it hasn't been socially acceptable to drink while pregnant for about 40 years, and never been morally acceptable to do so
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;38458708]and never been morally acceptable to do so[/QUOTE]
I don't know about that. Once upon a time doctors told pregnant women to drink to keep their nerves calm & likewise the fetus healthy.
[QUOTE=BlueChihuahua;38458757]I don't know about that. Once upon a time doctors told pregnant women to drink to keep their nerves calm & likewise the fetus healthy.[/QUOTE]
Because alcohol is [I]totally[/I] the only method in the universe for relieving stress.
[QUOTE=BlueChihuahua;38458757]I don't know about that. Once upon a time doctors told pregnant women to drink to keep their nerves calm & likewise the fetus healthy.[/QUOTE]
That falls under socially acceptable
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;38458708]it hasn't been socially acceptable to drink while pregnant for about 40 years, and never been morally acceptable to do so[/QUOTE]
The rights of the mother have always come first, and will for the foreseeable future. I don't think you can say the rights of the mother come first EXCEPT in this case, so it's both or neither, or thereabouts. It's their right, and is it not morally acceptable for them to exercise their rights?
[QUOTE=scout1;38458969]The rights of the mother have always come first, and will for the foreseeable future. I don't think you can say the rights of the mother come first EXCEPT in this case, so it's both or neither, or thereabouts. It's their right, and is it not morally acceptable for them to exercise their rights?[/QUOTE]
Responsibilities come before rights. It's a mother's responsibility to care for her children up to a certain point, and drinking during pregnancy is near the top of the list of things counter-intuitive to that responsibility.
I will try to remember this when I get pregnant.
[editline]15th November 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=scout1;38458969]The rights of the mother have always come first, and will for the foreseeable future. I don't think you can say the rights of the mother come first EXCEPT in this case, so it's both or neither, or thereabouts. It's their right, and is it not morally acceptable for them to exercise their rights?[/QUOTE]
I think you missed the latest abortion thread.
Heh, looking at it, the article says that the results vary, depending on your genetic ability to metabolise alcohol. The slower it happens the more odanger happens.
The faster you metabolise it, the less danger happens.
This is some Brave New World shit here
Now we're only waiting on Bokanovsky's process
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