Can you imagine the AAP making the same statement about immunizations or
using
> car seats? This is not about freedom of choice, it is about a freedom
> of marketing and commercial influence/manipulation of esteemed pediatric
> perspective in relation to child health.
>
> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:56:39 -0700
> From: g raphael <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: AAP and a woman's right to choose...
>
> Using the argument that the AAP statement is merely acknowledging a woman's
> choice, or a right to her own body, and perhaps also protecting a woman's
> feelings for an inability to breastfeed due to UNTREATABLE medical
> condition(s) of mother or child...
>
> BALDERDASH!!
>
> What health practitioner or health agency would defend a woman's right to
> smoke during pregnancy???
>
>
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