Bar owners in New York told they cannot deny service to pregnant women

The admonition to bar tenders, bouncers and club managers in all five boroughs to not even think about turning with-child customers away was contained in a wider set of guidelines that mostly deal with protections and rights for pregnant women in the workplace.

At the moment, bars in New York are required nonetheless to display signs that warn of the risks   of harm to a fetus from alcohol consumption.  But armed with that information pregnant women should be left alone to make up their own minds whether to drink, the guidelines insist.

“Judgments and stereotypes about how pregnant individuals should behave, their physical capabilities and what is or is not healthy for a fetus are pervasive in our society and cannot be used as pretext for unlawful discriminatory decisions“ in public venues, they say.