Pregnant and drunk? Holy Moly!

A woman who drinks as much as a man faces more physical problems because of human physiology. The problem is compounded by pregnancy.
I try not to be a moralistic old fogey. I really do. The moment you start talking of “children of nowadays” you are past it and need to become a church elder. If you see me crusading against teenage habits, write to my baby mama and ask her to boot me!
However, in a bar at South B Nairobi recently, I saw a very sickening sight. As I downed a bottle or two and made merry with friends, a very pregnant woman walked in and ordered her poison. She had at least two before I left in disgust.
Surely, aside from people below the age of 18, we shouldn’t sell a drop to women who are pregnant. Foetal alcohol syndrome is a great concern and represents a risk that the children did not volunteer for.
Children should not be born with hooch coursing through their tiny little arteries.
Compared to their counterparts in Rwanda and Uganda, Kenyan women do not drink as much. That is a good thing. However, we should recall that the effects of drinking are not split evenly between the sexes or the races. (We are unlucky that Africans, for the most part, are excellent at digesting alcohol, unlike, say, people from the Far East.)
A woman who drinks as much as a man faces more physical problems because of human physiology. The problem is compounded by pregnancy.
Controlling alcohol consumption in women is about brain-addled babies. Mututho should latch onto this issue and rid our bars of pregnant women. Also, there is no mood killer worse in a bar than the sight of a pregnant woman walking in as you chat up a lady.