I saw the Fox news "debate" segment this week about the danger of a "nanny
state", being created by, among other things, the new IRS ruling about tax
deduction for breast pumps, and supplies.

A slight part of this news segment was played by CNN

Mother's milk stirs unlikely political debate - CNN.com

Though making sure to announce that she was supportive of breastfeeding,
having breastfed her own five children, the Congresswoman, I thought, was
almost viciously anti-supportive of tax deduction of breastpumps and
supplies for mothers with an income high enough to itemize, etc. She
mistakenly stated that the issue was for the government to "go and buy a
mother's breastpump".

So she is evidently completely unaware that many WIC projects, and many
Medicaid plans, have been doing just that for a long time: providing  manual
pumps, or for mothers in certain specified situations, their own double
electric pumps to keep, without charge to the mother,

While I have mixed feelings about breastpump marketing practices which seem
to imply that a pump is a necessity for every breastfeeding mother, I do not
think we've heard the last of this in the current government cost-cutting
climate.

K. Jean Cotterman RNC-E, IBCLC
WIC Volunteer LC Dayton Ohio

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