WHO are these clowns? LUCY CARNE

BLESSED be the commanders of the World Health Organisation with their latest decree to the fertile women of the human race.

The same esteemed group that made Robert Mugabe a goodwill ambassador and told us there was nothing dodgy happening in Wuhan, have now announced that women of child-bearing age should not drink any alcohol.

No, not pregnant women or women wanting to conceive. The WHO refers specifically to that minor biological cohort that is any woman of “child-bearing age”. According to their advice, females from their first period to menopause (so about 13 to 50 years old) must be teetotal.

That’s almost 40 years of abstinence for the sake of safe procreation.

To be clear, it’s not an official ban on drinking, but advice recommended on page 17 of the draft of the WHO’s Global alcohol action plan 2022-2030.

The document, released publicly on Thursday, urges countries to give “appropriate attention” to the prevention of drinking in certain groups, including “women of child-bearing age”.

While also recommending an international booze-free day or week, the plan also warns that people must be protected from the pressure to drink. The blanket guidance, which seemingly includes all ovulating women, regardless of whether they want kids or not, was met with accusations of scaremongering, sexism and enabling ‘sharia creep’.

There are concerns that it is not just some harmless advice in a draft plan, but will be used as a justification to further curtail women’s rights globally.

“We absolutely have to stand up to an agenda which increasingly treats every woman of child-bearing age as ‘prepregnant’. We put women’s lives and wellbeing at risk when we reduce them to vessels,” British Pregnancy Advisory Service chief executive Clare Murphy said.

Dag Rekve from WHO’s Alcohol, Drugs and Addictive Behaviours Unit told BBC radio that the next draft would make it clearer what they meant by

“appropriate attention”, but warned that “if women are planning to become pregnant or if women are engaging in unprotected sex and can become pregnant, they need to know the incredible harm that can happen to their potential future child.”

Ostensibly, WHO’s advice aims to prevent harm to unborn children.

But the heavy-handed tactic fails to address that people who suffer alcohol abuse will not suddenly stop their heavy drinking just because WHO says so.

Here’s hoping in their next draft plan, WHO dials down the misogynistic medical fascism.

Until then, may the Lord open that bottle of wine.