Please, no flames. I am only speaking about bottles. Regardless of our
various positions about that ~other~ issue, our lactivist issue of
breastfeeding is a victim in the "Sanctity of Human Life - Baby Bottle
Campaign". It is in my town, and if Google is to be believed, it is in your
town, too.
So if "Sanctity of Human Life" is the issue, then how can it be that the
baby bottle is the symbol of choice? If failing to breastfeed kills (1.3?
7? 9?) million babies each year, how can any person who cares about babies
use the baby bottle as the symbol for life???
These baby bottles show up everywhere in my world, at work, at church, at
all of my kids' activities. I have written letters, made phone calls,
ranted to all who show up with a bottle in hand, etc. I have been told
that, "Yes, we know that breast is best, but the bottles are our best
fundraiser, so that is what we will use." It makes it hard for me to
believe that these folks care one bit about the "Sanctity of Human Life".
It makes me think that they only care about money.
My kids now cringe, duck, or run whenever they see one coming, because they
know that mom is going to blow again.
Am I the only one who is bothered by this? Is there nothing that can be
done? Am I just a nit-picking whiner who doesn't "get it"? Are my
priorities out of line? My future daughters-in-law (whomever they may be)
are watching!
Corrine Flatt
Las Vegas NV
"an estimated 7 million lives are saved annually by the protective effects
of breastfeeding (9 million children a year already die, so without
breastfeeding we are talking of 16 million deaths), mostly by reducing
diarrheal disease but also acute respiratory infections. This could be
increased by another 1.3 million, if exclusive breastfeeding were practiced
" ~ The World Bank Group
http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/hnp/nutrition/nnn/nnn11.htm
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