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Lee Galasso <[log in to unmask]>
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Susan - This is regarding your post:

>>I just discovered a law on the books in NY State - apparently unique among
the 50 states that states that formula discharge packs cannot be given to a
woman without a prescription from her pediatrician or the request of the
woman.  So, I'm wondering why all women I see (including myself) are given
these packs even when they don't ask for them.  I'm writing a letter to the
hospital where I delivered about how annoyed I am that they gave me that
formula pack.  I KNOW my pediatrician didn't order it.<<

I had heard about the above info, however I was told that it was part of the
NYS Dept of Health Rules and Regulations for Hospitals.  If it is a state
law, do you have the number of the law?  That is what we would need to show
the medical community when we object to their unlawful practice of giving
the packs out indiscriminately.

 

And your other post:

>>I am preparing for a meeting with a NY State Senator thanks to another
lactation consultant who graciously invited me along for my international
experience.<<

I have tried for years, unsuccessfully, to get a copy of the penalties for
violating the NY State Civil Rights Law (79-e Right to breast feed) that
grants women the right to breastfeed in public.  Gov. Cuomo was in office at
the time and was instrumental in getting the law on the books on 6/15/94,
but none of my representatives in Albany, not in the Assembly nor the Senate
nor Gov. Pataki's office, could find the penalties for me and/or was willing
to give me a statement combining the penalties and the law on their official
stationery.  I wanted to work on putting the law, and the penalties for
violating it, on a wallet-sized laminated card that could be given out to
women.

Do you have any ideas about how to get that information?  The only other
thing I have is the memory of an article in The New York Times, on or around
that date, that reported the passing of the law and the penalties.  I think
the penalties were:  up to $5,000 and/or up to 5 years in jail.but those,
I've been told, are for the violation of any civil rights law; I doubt they
would be levied for harassment for breastfeeding in public.  My intention is
to work to change that and would appreciate ideas on how to obtain an
official statement from someone in Albany.

Lee Galasso, MS, IBCLC, RLC

Lactation Specialist

Westchester County in NY State


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