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New Statesman | Blood alcohol tests in pregnancy: what do women lose when their bodies are scrutinised like this?

7 July, 201523 February, 2017 ~ Sarah Ditum

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When women are increasingly scrutinised and shamed for the way they tend to actual or potential foetuses within them, it is not paranoid at all to feel this legislation as the cold hand of a threat laid on women’s backs.

Read the full post at the New Statesman

Posted in Feminism, Opinions alcoholBMJPregnancy

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I’m a columnist, critic and feature writer with bylines at the New Statesman, the Guardian, the Spectator, the Independent, Eurogamer, Stylist, Grazia, Elle and more. Regular TV and radio appearances, including Newsnight and Today. Available for teaching and talks. Anti-fun feminist. Represented by Juliet Pickering at Blake Friedman.

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