Step aside, condom machine. That dusty, crank-lever dispenser in bar bathrooms reminding you to make safe choices while drinking has met its challenger.
An upscale bar in southern Minnesota has installed a pregnancy test dispenser in its woman’s bathroom. For Pub 500 owner Tom Fredrik, “it took about 30 seconds to say yes,” he told local news channel KARE.
The decision came about after one of his regulars, Jody Allen Crowe, who just so happens to be an expert in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, proposed the idea. Female customers can purchase a $3 test from the machine with a swipe of a credit card.
The machine lends a not-so-subtle voice to the chorus of studies that say not to drink (heavily, at least) while pregnant. The bar hopes to make women think over whether to have a drink — or another drink — if they suspect they’re pregnant.
As one of the more up-market drinking establishments in the Mankato area, Pub 500’s demographic broadly fits that of the type of women more likely to drink when pregnant – those who are financially stable, live in an urban area and are aged between 35-44.
One female customer praised the idea as being “less embarrassing than going to the drug store.”
The profits from the vending machines, which cost around $1,000, will benefit Crowe’s non-profit charity Healthy Brains for Children, which aims to spread the awareness of prenatal exposure to alcohol.
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