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Originally Posted by Zee

Yeah but he's a barman, he has no way of knowing if this is her only drink of the day/week/last 9 months. For all he knows this is a woman who spends all day every day drinking despite being pregnant and evidently he didn't want to be involved in any potential problems. Why would he ask her? As Caitlin said, and I have been saying, most people, especially men, aren't really clued up about pregnancy because it's not something we go through personally.

If he refused service to someone who was blind drunk and they felt "humiliated" about being denied service, people wouldn't be against the barman; but because it's a pregnant woman people are getting all uppity about it... personally I think that you shouldn't be putting anything into your body that will intoxicate you if you're carrying a baby. The barman clearly feels the same way. The pregnant woman knows more than either of us and she feels differently - and that's fine, if she wants to have her glass of wine a week in the comfort of her own home then that's fine, but having it with dinner in a restaurant is naturally going to raise eyebrows not just from the bar staff but from people in the restaurant too.

But those would all be completely baseless presumptions, I mean should barmen always assume that unless it's proven otherwise everyone they're dealing with is spending "all day every day drinking"? He would ask her because that's the reasonable thing to do instead of making incorrect judgements, surely the fact that he would know less about pregnancy is even more reason for him not to make this call (though I kinda thought it was fairly common knowledge that pregnant women can drink - and smoke - in very small doses)

Originally Posted by Ben

Actually it is. If something happened to her or the baby on premises because she was drunk he would be held liable for serving her.

Ah come on, it's a massive leap to go from allowing one small glass of wine with a meal to being criminally liable for alcohol-related problems existing in the new born baby from drunkenness.