Pregnant Woman Refused On A Cruise Ship And Seems Like She Really Dodged A Bullet Here.

ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) - A woman says her family was not allowed to board a Disney cruise because she was pregnant.

Emily Jackson has a family of 10, and a baby boy on the way. She said her family was so excited about their Disney cruise they had tee-shirts made, but the trip became a nightmare.

Jackson says she and her family went through security and boarded the cruise but as they waited for their room keys, crew members singled her out for being pregnant.

According to Disney’s policy, women who are 24 weeks pregnant during the cruise will be refused passage. Jackson is 25 weeks pregnant and said her doctor gave her the okay to go on the trip. A spokesperson for Disney said the woman's family never made onboard the cruise because while she was filling out check-in paperwork, it was discovered that she was 25 weeks pregnant, and was against boarding policy.

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I mean, is this really a bad thing? Let’s get past all of the initial shittiness of being told you can’t do something. Seriously, let’s go ahead and put that behind us. We there? Lady, count your blessings. You are so lucky to have been kicked off of this cruise. This is in your best interests, trust me. The LAST place you want to be pregnant is on a cruise line. Every other choice is better. Ferry, better. Airplane, better. Supermarket deli, better. Target parking lot, better. Cruise are barely equipped to serve 200 people dinner without have of them dying from salmonella poisoning and the other half brawling each other because someone stepped on someone else’s foot, how would a cruise ship be equipped for a pregnancy?

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. When you step foot on a cruise ship, you step foot into the Dark Ages. It doesn’t matter how many technological, medical, and most importantly, societal advancements we’ve made- those go immediately to the wayside when you enter the Dark Ages again. There are no rules. There are no laws. I’d be surprised if there was a single doctor on that ship. That is not the place you want to bring a child into the world. It just isn’t.

And trust me, you may think you’ll be cool if shit starts going down onboard, but you will NOT be happy going into labor on a cruise ship. I would wager and that labor is not fun to begin with, and it’s a process that is made less pleasant by being on the open sea. Also, we’re in the Dark Ages here, who’s to say an Italian family of 23 isn’t going to storm in and steal all of your belongings while you’re in your birth throes, or worse. If you think that giving birth grants you amnesty from an angry, brawling Italian family, you are wrong.

Plus I bet a hundred dollars that the placenta somehow gets mistakenly served as tuna tartare by the kitchen, and the thought of that makes me want to kill myself.