Yes, it is better for a child to be breast fed than to be bottle fed. My wife breast fed both of our children. My son's wife is a working mother and used bottles. My daughter was unable to breast feed for medical reasons, but bottle fed her pumped breast milk to her babies.
Breast feeding, like anything else, has to be a choice. It is disgusting that liberal lunatic New York Mayor Bloomberg has now even gotten to the point that he wants to force women to breast feed, whether they like it, or not.
Bloomberg believes government should be able to force you to do anything they want because the liberal ruling elite somehow knows better than you what choices to make. In the case of breast milk, Mayor Bloomberg is pushing hospitals to hide their baby formula behind locked doors so more new mothers will breast feed.
These are not mere words, either. beginning on September 3, New York City under the demand by Bloomberg will start keeping tabs on the number of bottles that participating hospitals stock and use.
They are claiming they are not denying mothers formula if they wish to use it. They are just making it harder to get the formula by keeping infant formula in out-of-the-way secure storerooms or in locked boxes like those used to dispense and track medications.
And, with each bottle a mother requests and receives, she’ll also get a talking-to. Staffers will explain why she should offer the breast instead.
I am wondering how long before they start arresting mothers who use formula.
“It’s the patient’s choice,” said Allison Walsh, of Beth Israel Medical Center. “But it’s our job to educate them on the best option.”
Fine, make a recommendation, but this kind of totalitarian nanny-state crap is beyond acceptable. Freedom means choice, and choice means that individuals can decide for themselves. This formula lockdown crap is ridiculous.
“It’s the patient’s choice,” said Allison Walsh, of Beth Israel Medical Center. “But it’s our job to educate them on the best option.”
Fine, make a recommendation, but this kind of totalitarian nanny-state crap is beyond acceptable. Freedom means choice, and choice means that individuals can decide for themselves. This formula lockdown crap is ridiculous.
What's next? Are they going to outlaw large sodas?
Ooops, too late. They did that too.
What is even crazier about this is that these same liberals who are so concerned about the health of babies in regards to breast feeding them, also generally support the slaughter of the unborn through abortion.
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This would officially make Mayor Bloomberg a boob, would it not?
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