http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/12/22/ 
mass_bans_hospital_gift_bags_for_new_moms/

Or

http://tinylink.com/?DIknV4njsN

I found the article to be skewed to the side of showing the "gift bags"  
to be good things unecessarily done away with. I was especially upset  
by the several references to "causing guilt" simply by lessening  
advertising. Or that *not* giving advertising is "a violation of  
privacy". I think it is sloppy journalism to present these sides as  
equal but that is just my opinion.

The article ends on this note:

"But not everyone chooses to breast-feed, due to work or other  
commitments, and not all women are physically able. Wood, 25, of Salem,  
said her now 15-month-old son initially had difficulty breast-feeding,  
so she used formula as a supplement, including the sample she got in  
her gift bag.
"To make people feel guilty for doing it is the risk people run by  
advocating it so strongly," Wood said.
Judi McLaughlin, 36, of Medford, who gave formula and breast milk to  
her 2-year-old and 10-month-old girls, said the government has no  
business promoting a way to feed babies. All the gift bag ban does, she  
said, is open the door to pressure from breast-feeding advocates and  
increase "mother guilt."
"My breasts, my business," she said. "Stay out of there."  "

Michelle DePesa
Boston, MA

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