No pregnant women allowed - Pregnant Woman Kicked Out of Bar

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When Michelle Lee, 29, walked into her hometown bar in Roselle, Illinois, late last Thursday night she was feeling frumpy, tired and really, really big. Eight months pregnant with her first child, she'd flown into town that day from Denver to attend her baby shower and her friends had talked her into a night out. But her effort at late-night fun lasted a whopping 15 minutes. No sooner than Lee had arrived, a bouncer at the the Coach House Restaurant told her she had to leave; no pregnant women allowed.

"I was stunned," she said. "He said, 'If anything happened to you here, we would be responsible.'"

Lee said she was near the bar sipping water with a friend who'd ordered shots when a bouncer approached her and told her she needed to follow him.

"It was a bunch of malarkey really," she said, recalling the bouncer's comments. "He said to me, 'I have a personal question to ask you, are you pregnant?' I said yes. Then he said, 'I'm going to have to ask you to leave.'"

Lee said she was totally humiliated by the incident and agreed to go home without argument. "I thought maybe there was some sort of pregnant woman ordinance."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/pregnant-lady-turned-illinois-bar/story?id=12600511

She said he asked her to leave shortly after midnight Thursday, telling her the bar would be liable if anything happened to her. She complied, but grew angrier over the weekend, questioning whether she had been discriminated against as a pregnant woman.

"He just said, if anything happens, if a fight breaks out and you get hurt, we are responsible," Lee said. "That can happen anywhere. If I am going somewhere, I am taking responsibility."

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-01-11/news/ct-met-pregnant-woman-in-bar-20110111_1_pregnant-woman-bar-pregnant-person


Michelle Lee, 29, says she was only drinking water at a bar near Roselle when a bouncer kicked her out because she was pregnant. Legal experts contacted by the Tribune said bars can't discriminate against pregnant women. (Benjamin Chernivsky, Photo for the Tribune / January 11, 2011)


Unbelievable!

On review they apparently don't have a website but here is some comments by locals: http://www.yelp.com/biz/coach-house-roselle