Should hospitals allow big drug companies into hospital rooms to market
their products to patients? Governor Romney says yes. If you disagree, please
consider signing a petition to support a ban against marketing of infant
formula by hospitals. About 80% of formula in the US is sold by large
pharmaceutical companies.
In February, Governor Romney stopped the enactment of public health
regulations that would ban the hospital distribution of formula company gift bags to
new mothers. By refusing to allow these consensus-based measures to take
effect, Romney put pharmaceutical company profits above public health.
The regulations do have a second chance, because the Public Health Council
has voted to reconsider them in May despite Romney's desire to stop them for
good. The regulations have nothing to do with a mother's choice of how to
feed her baby; formula would still be available in hospitals. They simply
address inappropriate marketing of formula by hospitals.
_View and sign the petition_ (http://www.massbfc.org/petitionContent.html)
The petition is sponsored by the Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition. Your
information will not be sold or given away.
If the above link does not work, go to _www.massbfc.org_
(http://www.massbfc.org) and click on the petition.
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