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CMV: Bartenders should be able to refuse liqour service to pregnant women.

Bartenders in Canada have the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason, except for protected classes. For absolutely every other instance I believe that pregnant women should be a protected class. 

Where I come into conflict is that I could not in good conscience serve someone a drink if that drink is proven to be likely to cause harm to another. The law even states that I am responsible for patrons who become intoxicated and hurt someone or them selves.

I would feel personally responsible if I somehow found out I served a pregnant woman some tequila and her baby was born with birth defects or a miscarriage.

An important note is that i do not think it should be illegal to serve them. This would mean that if a pregnant woman wants to get drunk, there are litteraly hundreds of bars and chances are someone doesn't care enough to lose out on a few bucks.

What won't change my view is the whole "my body my choice" angle, because you can get a drink without making me responsible. Such as lying and saying "I am not pregnant", because I would have plausible deniability. Or the idea that this would result in non-pregnant women being refused service,  Because of the sheer number of bars and the nature of competition.
gpt
There's a major problem with this in that it's *often* not crystal-clear who is pregnant and who is not until very late in pregnancy, and at that point a drink is far less likely to affect the fetal brain.  What if a woman is refused service because the bartender claims she's pregnant, but she insists she isn't? Should she have to take a pregnancy test in the bar to prove she isn't pregnant?

This ends up being bartenders being able to discriminate against women, period.  And we know from looking at pre-Civil Rights Act stuff in the US that market forces *do not* make people serve demographics they want to discriminate against.  Otherwise there would be no need for the Civil Rights Act.