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From: "Elizabeth Brooks" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 12:45 PM
Subject: [LACTNET] Confusion
> Marianne -- you and I and everyone can indeed use our own internal "smell
> test" to make decisions on ethical matters. Had you been editor-in-chief
> at
> JHL, you'd have made a different call. And that would have been your
> prerogative.
**Hmmm... my prerogative... If I am the only one, I think it would be wise
for me to reconsider my views. If it turns out I am part of a big majority,
I think we have a different situation.
I don't know about associations in the US, but in the Netherlands the board
of an association is supposed to represent the opinion of the majority of
the members. To find that out, the annual general meeting serves to address
issues considered relevant and brought up in the agenda by either the board
or the members who can add topics to the suggested agenda, which only then
gets its final form.
Sorry to be so persistent, but if the majority of ILCA-members would feel
that an ad like the Lansinoh one on the May issue *with regard to the
text/content* does not pass the IBCLC-smell-test, based on how they
interpret the Scope of Practice and the Code of Ethics, I think it should
not appear another time. I'm not a lawyer, so it's fairly easy to beat me
when it comes to specific rules. It's fairly hard, though, to beat me when
it comes to logic, clever and ethical thinking, because I'm hard to persuade
without good arguments. I have not heard good arguments in favour of the
Lansinoh-ad so far, unfortunately, but am open to hear anyone explain how
the text helps to protect, promote and support a natural way of
breastfeeding. Be my guest, indulge me! ;-)
Warmly,
Marianne Vanderveen IBCLC, Netherlands
P.S. This discussion is not only about this ad... it is about
Wiessingerizing what we say or imply. If *WE* don't watch our language and
what we extend to colleagues, new and experienced... who will?!
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