They aren’t ordering women about, and they’re largely a body formed to make recommendations. Take this more as they think women are more likely to make a decision based on their advice and recommendations than the federal government.

They made all those recommendations separate from the issue of pregnancy as well (well, not the folic acid one)...

This attitude frightens and confuses me. I was on antidepressants for a while - the whole don’t drink while on this medication - and still went out with friends. I drank water and was the designated driver and still had a great time - because it’s not about the alcohol.

It’s their job to recommend something so stupid and unrealistic as moderating your alcohol intake and making informed decisions. I’m also willing to bet that they recommend more birth control access.

By providing information aren’t they attempting to aid women in making informed decisions as opposed to uninformed decisions?

They released it in 2014: http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-s…

They released recommendations for men in 2014: http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-s…

They also recommend that women don’t smoke and maintain proper nutrition during pregnancy. My goodness, those monsters, “controlling” women to try to mitigate some risk.

It also says it is unclear which approach is best, that the sample size was small (less than 1500 subjects to study a disorder with an incidence rate of less than 10 per 1000 births), and at one point states that the studies were conducted with respect to early pregnancy drinking rather than drinking overall.

I think they have those recommendations elsewhere. But yes, your body your choice. They just want it to be an informed choice.

1) Or they assume trans women and lesbians are aware they won’t get pregnant and don’t fall under the category of “are pregnant or may become pregnant.”

I think it more assumes that you’re capable of ignoring the advice if it doesn’t pertain to you.

They released that recommendation in 2014: http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-s…

They did. When drinking water was worse, they drank alcohol. Unless you’re in Flint or other areas with third world quality water, that’s not the case.

They released that recommendation in 2014: http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-s…

...they aren’t controlling it? They’re making a recommendation, which is, you know, they’re role...and they’re making it based on research and a desire to keep themselves from being sued if they say some alcohol is fine and then someone ends up discovering that it wasn’t for them.

The CDC is coming from a point of “your anecdotal evidence may exist, but we can’t extend that to everyone.”

The CDC also considers alcoholism a problem, thus they went with the two birds and one stone route.

They released it in 2014: http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-s…

Forgive me if I’m restating someone else’s post, but I believe y’all are missing the point.