In June 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) released their Global Alcohol Action Plan for 2022–2030, in which they strongly recommend that “women of childbearing age” refrain from drinking alcohol, because alcohol consumption could impact their ability to become pregnant.23 Essentially, it suggests that people with uteruses spend their adulthood being concerned with and policing themselves for the sake of nonexistent, hypothetical future pregnancies.

