This is outrageous!  What ever happened to civil rights?  Is NY becoming
a communist community?  I don't see how it can be legal to keep a woman
and her new baby in the hospital just to wait and see if the lab is
incorrect.  If the pair appear to be in good health, they are in danger
of contracting a nosicomial infection just by being there.  Who is
supposed to pay for these extended stays?  Who will take care of other
sibs at home?  Once again, women and children are paying the price for
society's ills.  I wonder if a mom can sue because she was denied the
right to bf because of an erroneous test?  Now her baby will be exposed
to the real dangers of formula instead of the small possible exposure to
HIV from breastmilk.  New Yorkers, please, write your legislators and
demand that this prejudicial, unhealthful, damaging law be repealed
before anyone suffers the emotional and physical damage sure to come,
for no reason, from this travesty of a law.

--

Denny Rice, RN, IBCLC
Dallas Texas USA

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