Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Would you support making it illegal to consume alcohol while pregnant?

Thoughts? Arguments?

8 Answers

Relevance
  • 4 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Yes I would. If you can't give up the things you want for a mere 9 months so your baby can grow up healthy then you shouldn't have children.

    Don't be selfish, think of it this way: what you ingest, your baby ingests. The glass of wine you think is harmless, could cause birth defects. People are too dumb these days.

  • MissA
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    No.

    1. I do not believe a woman loses her right to bodily autonomy when she becomes pregnant. She is still allowed to make her own decisions, even when they are bad ones. That is a slippery dang slope to say otherwise.

    2. There is really almost no evidence that *light* drinking during pregnancy is harmful to the baby at all. Heavy drinking? Yes, absolutely. But a glass of wine or a beer once in a while? Not really. And in fact many other countries do not follow our absurdly strict pregnancy guidelines about alcohol and do not see worse outcomes than we do. I can see the the benefit in having the "recommendation" be zero- substance abuse is a huge problem and for some people a flat "zero alcohol" is preferable to relying on them to manage their consumption safely themselves. But criminalizing a behavior that may well be harmless seems counterproductive.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    The only way it can be enforced outside of fighting privacy laws, would be to prohibit the consumtion by a pregnant in any public place or venue

  • 4 years ago

    Yes! You can cause your baby to be damaged from the alcohol!

  • How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
  • 4 years ago

    Yep! I will because drugs is affecting the baby while pregnant

  • 4 years ago

    YES I would if it were doable and there was actually a way to enforce it, which there is not.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    No ! and there's no way to enforce it .

  • WRG
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    No

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.