Posted on 07/30/2012 8:55:24 PM PDT by Fred
The latest from New York’s commissioner of mental hygiene is that maternity wards in New York are going to start locking up their baby formula so as to force new mothers to breast feed their children. This scheme, according to the report in the New York Post, will start in 27 of the city’s 40 hospitals September 3. It’s part of the so-called “Latch on NYC” initiative the mental hygiene commissioner sprung on the city in May. The idea seems to be that New Yorkers elected the mayor to station the commissioner, Dr. Thos. Farley, between each newborn and his mother to make sure she doesn’t use her own best judgment in making her choice of how to feed her baby. Of course, if her choice had been that she’d wanted to abort the baby, the mayor would have hustled Dr. Farley out of the way faster than you could say Margaret Sanger.
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The man is a tyrant, thank God he is only a mayor.
So, how ‘bout the mothers who drink and do drugs? Great nutrition for the babies.
New Yorkers get what they deserve. They asked for it and should lay in they bed they made.
In a city where restaurants are threatened with closure for using too much salt, where kids aren’t allowed to purchase a soda at school, the same kids are somehow mature enough at 11 to be MANDATED into the most perverted pro-sex sex ed course ever devised.
WSJ had a story years back, some mothers bought into the breast feed only propoganda, and their babies suffered brain damage from malnutrition.
He can be whatever he wants to be. I personally thank God I do not live in New York to have to put up with his libtastic ways. =.=
Selective Pro-Choice....
Well that won’t sit well with many on FR who get all wigged up about breast feeding as somthing sexual.
pssssdt breast feeding should be encouraged but government involvement hell no!
I think breastfeeding is the way to go, but why is the mayor bothering about this when he’s got regular Mayor stuff to do? Doesn’t anybody stick to their job description any more?
One begins to wonder whether or not this Bloomberg character is... uh... playing with a full deck; in possession of all his marbles; seeding the funny farm, and so on...
Lord have mercy.
There is nothing wrong with breastfeeding. It’s perverts who want to make it into something public and sexual by making breastfeeding porn.
But Bloomberg is the future of liberalism. The public as a whole are too stupid to make he the right decisions a progressive world. The Bloombergs will make the usual personal decisions for the public and call it liberation.
Pssst...I think Bloomers has boob envy.
Seems this would fall under the “my body, my choice” thing. If you can’t make a woman use her womb to carry a child, how can you make her use her breasts to feed a child?
Will the “My body, my choice!” feminists be enraged over this?
You beat me to it. This would seem to be something that would anger the feminazis.
What happened to, “My body, my choice.”
There are a lot of misconceptions about this program (justifiably so, given the source - Bloomberg). This program does not prohibit or restrict mothers who want formula from getting formula. All it does, in the hospitals that (voluntarily) participate, is make it so that mothers who want to breastfeed don't have formula pushed on them.
When my daughter was born, in a NYC hospital that was not part of this program, my wife told the hospital she wanted to breastfeed only. The baby was in the NICU for a 48-hour observational period, so my wife asked the nurses to come get her any time the baby wanted to eat, and not to give her formula. Some nurses listened, some nurses didn't. There was no medical indication for formula - it was just what the nurses were used to doing. So, for the first couple of days, my daughter was being periodically supplemented with formula, against my wife's wishes. This caused/contributed to lasting milk-supply issues which made it difficult/impossible for my wife to exclusibely breastfeed (which, again, is what she wanted to do).
Had this program been in place at the time, that never would have happened. If you ask me, that would have expanded, not restricted, my wife's choices.
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