Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is a very serious problem confronting pregnancy risk.
As it manifests most in the first trimester and there are many women indulging in a lifestyle surrounded by alcohol who will be unaware of a pregnancy until damage may well be done.
Sixty years ago there were some reasonable preventions in that alcohol was a costly risk factor almost avoided by people vulnerable, today not so apparently.
The disorder causes some devastating outcomes for up to one in twenty births, has no cure and lasts a lifetime for an afflicted baby.
A solution is difficult in extreme and possibly only can be achieved by abstinence for any and all females at risk, as if that will become widespread, unlikely?
Warnings on bottles? sorry that will add a cost and be totally ineffective, will a bartender be required to accompany a person buying drinks at a bar back to the table to warn any females of child bearing age of the printed risk warning on a label?
Education? as if that would be in play there is already more than ample understanding for many yet a close relative who chose to work with these victims of modern society tells me most women understand the risk yet somehow indulge anyway. I guess the “it wont happen to me” in play.
Perhaps Ms Wedd, when she has solved the internet bullying pandemic can turn her clearly believed abilities to this much greater problem than a teenager crying because no one likes them.