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Study: Describing Breastfeeding as ‘Natural’ Is Unethical Because It Reinforces Gender Roles
Heat Street ^ | April 26, 2017 | Jillian Kay Melchior

Posted on 04/27/2017 6:04:41 AM PDT by C19fan

It’s “ethically inappropriate” for government and medical organizations to describe breastfeeding as “natural” because the term enforces rigid notions about gender roles, claims a new study in Pediatrics.

“Coupling nature with motherhood… can inadvertently support biologically deterministic arguments about the roles of men and women in the family (for example, that women should be the primary caretaker,” the study says.

(Excerpt) Read more at heatst.com ...


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KEYWORDS: lgbt; women
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Science Guy Nye not available for comment. Is it inappropriate to classify mammals based on the female produces milk to nourish the infant?
1 posted on 04/27/2017 6:04:41 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Simple reply: bullsh*t.


2 posted on 04/27/2017 6:09:03 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: C19fan

(sigh)

Our society now exalts sheer stupidity.


3 posted on 04/27/2017 6:10:28 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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Anyone who fancies themselves a “bioethicist” is a clear and present danger to humanity.


4 posted on 04/27/2017 6:13:04 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: C19fan

My god now we’re no longer mammals


5 posted on 04/27/2017 6:13:52 AM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: C19fan

Yeah, like we’re not even mammals anymore. We, as a species, and the world have not really changed all that much. Liberals think they can take credit for an evolution of our species in their own lifetimes. What a joke! Liberals can make the world appear to look like something they imagine it should look like but they don’t actually change anything. They really do believe in magic.


6 posted on 04/27/2017 6:15:13 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: vladimir998
Our society now exalts sheer stupidity.

Only the HiLiary half.

7 posted on 04/27/2017 6:16:46 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: C19fan

The linked page appears for a few seconds and then IE displays that the address is not valid. WTH?


8 posted on 04/27/2017 6:18:21 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: C19fan

Maybe we could focus on internal carry and pre-natal nourishment via umbilical cord?

I guess that would either be sexist or gender appropriative. (Hey, I just made up a new PC phrase!)


9 posted on 04/27/2017 6:20:46 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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I think we’ll need to commission extensive studies.


10 posted on 04/27/2017 6:26:48 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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Guess what, gender (or more properly, sex roles) are natural. Live in reality!


11 posted on 04/27/2017 6:27:13 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: C19fan

Somehow a scene from RAISING ARIZONA came to mind.


12 posted on 04/27/2017 6:36:34 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!)
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Natural and normal are new trigger words, because they remind the unnatural and abnormal of what they are not.


13 posted on 04/27/2017 6:41:21 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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Anyone knows that any program like this would eradicate farm and wild deer population.

This is sheer suicidal nonsense.

Imagination is fine, but there are limits, criminal insane limits. These people advocating this are terrorists and a national security threat, abusers of the worst kind. Just when you thought IsIs was ghoulish...


14 posted on 04/27/2017 6:41:38 AM PDT by lavaroise
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“My god now we’re no longer mammals”

Excellent point! Perhaps the originator of the unethical reference to breastfeeding feeding chose not to identify as such...

It is getting weirder every day.


15 posted on 04/27/2017 6:41:59 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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What about egg producing?

-PJ

16 posted on 04/27/2017 6:52:18 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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Was this quasi study, if a study at all, done by men hating Lesbian MDs?


17 posted on 04/27/2017 7:05:42 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ("Fake news is just another name for slander or libel, and should be prosecuted."!!!)
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To: C19fan

I used to laugh at the Life of Brian “Call me Loretta” scene. Now I cry.


18 posted on 04/27/2017 7:25:38 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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To: equaviator

Liberals think they can take credit for an evolution of our species in their own lifetimes.
= = =

Interesting.

Evolutionists claim that increasing complexity was an accident.

Liberals, with ‘intellegent’ planning, are reversing that complexity.

And it did not take billions and billions of years.


19 posted on 04/27/2017 7:26:01 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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To: vladimir998

To paraphrase Malcolm Muggeridge, we have educated ourselves to imbecility.


20 posted on 04/27/2017 7:27:04 AM PDT by tbpiper
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