I am an empty walking womb!

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All women of childbearing age, and not just pregnant women, should be screened about how much alcohol they drink, new Canadian guidelines recommend.

Women's health experts from the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, known as the SOGC, developed the guidelines based on a review of scientific evidence regarding possible harm to a fetus.

The guidelines, released on Thursday, aim to make alcohol screening and support for women at risk a routine part of medical visits to prevent fetal alcohol spectrum disorder or FASD.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/08/12/alcohol-use-pregnancy.html#ixzz0wQQL89cr

Yes, that's right, gentle readers. All cis women in Canada should be "screened about how much alcohol they drink" to prevent FASD. Aren't getting pregnant? Aren't in a sexual relationship? Aren't in a sexual relationship with a person who could cause a pregnancy? Aren't whatever? No matter! You are a womb! An incubator! A carrier of generations yet unborn! YAY!

I'm so going to have a drink tonight, in celebration of my incubator-status. You are welcome to join me.

{yes yes whatever this is irritating me all out of proportion i'm too sensitive wah wah - take it to your own space. this is my drinking to my unused uterus thread. People who do not drink for whatever reason are welcome to raise a glass of non-alcoholic beverage of their choice as well, should they wish to do so.}

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[spiralsheep]

I've already had champagne today... which is possibly an indication of why British doctors have been obsessing for years about how much alcohol all their patients drink (yes, the men too, it's a standard question), heh.

/"52% of our days are overcast, so as a nation we're infused with a wistful melancholy, but we remain a relentlessly chipper population prone to mild eccentricity, binge drinking and casual violence." - Bill Bailey