2021-06-18 15:35:59
The WHO wants to prevent all women of "child-bearing age" from drinking alcohol
So in the recently released Global alcohol action plan by the World Health Organisation, they say how "Appropriate attention should be given to prevention of the initiation of drinking among children and adolescents, prevention of drinking among pregnant women and women of childbearing age, and protection of people from pressures to drink". Women of childbearing age being basically all women over 14 and under 60.
Nevermind how not all women might want to get pregnant, or be able to get pregnant. Clearly if a woman is within the childbearing age it's random chance whether a baby suddenly appears inside her. Nothing could predict it. (/s)
It annoys me to no end how clearly they think of women as nothing more than baby making machines. This isn't about the health of women, it's about the health of hypothetical babies. Because if it was about the health of the women, they'd have said it about men first, as they are more at risk from early death caused by alcohol (as stated earlier in the same article, in 2016 it caused 2.3 million deaths in men, 0.7 million deaths in women).
It feels like it's about controlling women.
If it was about childrens health, they wouldn't only care about maternal drinking. Multiple studies have found paternal drinking to the same disorders found from maternal drinking. So why isn't the advice "Attention should be given to preventing people trying to convieve a child from drinking"? Why is it only about controlling what women do?
Study on paternal drinking's association with birth defects
Another study on paternal drinking's damage
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