Esther, call me paranoid, but I am thinking this "Pro-Breastfeeding"
campaign is more an attempt, (as is per usual as we approach World
Breastfeeding Week and anti breastfeeding forces and ABM companies come
out in force) to make breastfeeding proponants look like "fanatics" in
order to discredit breastfeeding and those who advocate it.
Several women in my LLL group, and a few of my clients saw these ads (I
did not see them myself) and they said some of the people around them
were "offended" by the content of them, and, in the way only
antibreastfeeding people can, attempted to hold ALL breastfeeding women
accountable for these "offensive" ads. *Perhaps THIS was the intent.* To
use "PRObreastfeeding" messages, in the extreme as the new anti-
breastfeeding tactic.
It wouldn't surprise me a bit. Just look at the news articles in July and
early August in years gone by about breastfeeding, just as we are leading
up to WBW......
Mary Jozwiak IBCLC, RLC
Private Practice
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:25:59 +0200, EDG <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>Are they still considering breastfeeding as a lifestyle choice and not a
>health one?
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/opinion/02sun2.html?ex=1152504000
><http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/opinion/02sun2.html?ex=1152504000&en=
>5100df4a0c7b4cf3&ei=5070&emc=eta1> &en=5100df4a0c7b4cf3&ei=5070&emc=eta1
>Editorial
>About Breast-Feeding ...
>Published: July 2, 2006
>If you want to start an argument, mention breast-feeding. A two-year
>federally sponsored campaign caused a rumpus when it compared a mother
>who fails to breast-feed with a pregnant woman who rides a bucking
>mechanical bull at a local tavern, or, in one official's formulation,
>with a woman who smokes while carrying a child. Recently, a Times
>article on the campaign incited a new debate that kept the report in the
>paper's most-e-mailed list for days. While we hesitate to stir things up
>again, it seems as if this is one issue where the middle ground makes
>the most sense.
>
>
>Esther G
>
>
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