> Trust me, people will find this out after it's born, and they'll be plenty judgmental then. And hey, rightly so.

What you're describing is human scale judgment. Example: a church music director doesn't allow such a person to join the choir.

With medical privacy out of the picture, what you'd be rationalizing here would be internet scale judgment. E.g., a script kiddie trolls the set of all known people who had children with fetal alcohol syndrome in an attempt to trigger them to kill themselves.

This is overly judgmental.

Accidental pregnancies happen (even with contraceptive use), and can often not be detected until several weeks have passed. Even if alcohol consumption is stopped immediately, fetal alcohol syndrome spectrum disorder can still occur in the child, since development during the early stages of pregnancy is particularly sensitive to alcohol.

> Even if alcohol consumption is stopped immediately [after noticing you're pregnant], fetal alcohol syndrome spectrum disorder can still occur in the child

Technically can, but this is unlikely in the extreme. (Source: my mother, a practicing obstetrician.)

Thank you for succinctly demonstrating why open sourcing medical records is a terrible idea.

To expand, here's a scenario: what if I'm a single father of a FAS child? What if the mother hid the pregnancy from me until birth? What if she hid the drinking from me? You're going to judge me and my hypothetical child for actions we didn't take, couldn't have prevented, and are dealing with the fallout of in the face of this kind of garbage?

All the judgement would sure help.

> All the judgement would sure help.

Being judged isn't supposed to help you any more than being thrown in jail is.

If you want to feel better about your life choices, you're welcome to watch reality television, instead of reading my hypothetical medical record.