Katy:

   I think that there are two issues:

        1) is the question of transmission through breastmilk. while there
are many opinions I am not sure that there is a definative answer. Many of
the cases, including the one you sited, the mother is in a higly viremic
state which occurs in the immediate stage and again in the later  stages.
there are many know cases where the baby does not seroconvert although mom is
HIV+ - ask Pam she is one of the most well versed among us.

       2) and equally important is the issue of the state taking this child
away form his/her parents. the bigger issue here is states rights vs
individual rights. read the newspaper wherever you live and you read about
parents doing horrendous things to thier children but maintaining custody
often until the child is irreprably harmed and sometimes killed at the
parents hands/I see people drive with children/infants in their laps.... the
latest issue of MIDIRS again visits the enforced cesarean question..../and
then there is the vaccine issue? where is the line is a very tough one

    Patricia

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