Would your conscience let you?

[Whos Carl]

I think the main point that has come all these responses are that 1 drink is acceptable but if they were having more than 1 would make people think twice about it,

[madeline]

Anyone who would deny her the right to consume a legal beverage belongs in the Bush White House.
and this is directed to the guy on the first page and any other person who said no>>>Who are you to deny anyone anything just because you happen to think it would be bad for her? Are you an expert? Are you her conscience? Are you anyone other than someone special who wants to be empowered to the point of controling another's personal life and choices?

If so, what the hell are you doing here???

[Stellar]

I've gieven lines to pregenant women....

Its their choice. My conscience would go as far as to cut her after I've seen her drink her fourth. It would be unproffessional to refuse to do your job, but, as a bartender, you have to authority to stop serving anyone at any time. I've worked at a few bars and done this more than once to pregnant women. I never liked seeing them drunk. I just tell them I'm done serving them for the night. I never made them get up and leave, but I've broken a few bottles when Mister Slick would try to sneak his knocked-up lady a drink after I cut her off.

You also have to take to note that, if you don't serve the lady, aren't they just gonna go somewhere and buy liqour or beer or go to another bar that will just think shes fat? At least I got to be responsible for them for periods of time, rather than force them to go somewhere where I have 0 say over the proceedings.

[Crosis]

I honestly couldn't care whether she or her baby lives or dies. I'll feed her liquor 'till her liver quits so long as she keeps paying for it. Call me cold hearted, but I don't give a damn about strangers.

[Coelho]

Well... if i worked in a bar, i would be fully conscious i would be serving poison for people, pregnant or not. I would be fully conscious people could die by driving drunk, commit crimes, and do all the shit drunk people do.

So, if my conscience would let me work in a bar, that would be cause i would not give a damn about people. In this case, i would serve anybody, pregnant or not.

Anyway, i hope never to work in such places...

[memoryburner]

I would serve her. No doubt about it. If she isnt bothered by the possible outcome, thats her fault.

[Oneironaut]

No, I would not. Similarly, if I were a kickboxing teacher, I would not teach a pregnant lady how to kickbox.

[halfassedjediknight]

How the hell did I go from refusing to serve alcohol to a pregnant woman to being a racist? That's the worst counterargument I've ever heard and trust me, that is saying something on these boards.

I'm not passing judgement. I'm personally choosing to refuse service. The lush can go get as hammered as she likes in some other bar with some of you more shady bartenders.
For that matter, when do you draw the line with serving just regular drunks? If someone's on their 35th shot are going to pour them their next? Bearing in mind that you might be liable if this person dies during the night...

The last thing I'd need as a bartender is some "developmentally challenged" kid sueing me for everything I had 15 years down the road because I let his mom get drunk one night oh so long ago.

I never called you a racist, i just gave an example of refusal and civil rights being obstructed. so it was a little drastic, but im sure you got the point, so dont act like you didnt.

and yes you are passing judgement. any refusal has some sort of scrutiny and judgement being made, dont make me bring up how the mind works and how you decide things.

as far as how much is too much, i.e. your 35th shot example..bartenders are trained to know when to cut someone off. and if youre serving someone that much, you should know how much theyve had and therefore, should have the intuition or know-how to know when someone has had enough.

[tootsie roll]

this establishment reserves the right to refuse service to anyone.

fuck no.

That's right.
Nope, I wouldn't serve her either. I don't serve fetus' and 2nd or 3rd trimester babies.
What she does at home isn't my issue. What she wants to make me do is my issue.
Babies don't necessarly want to get drunk. Mommy should respect that.

[make it legal]

Refusing her would be acting like our very own government who denys us weed and thinks they know what's better for us.