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Marianne Vanderveen-Kolkena <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 13 May 2009 13:09:55 +0200
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elizabeth Brooks" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 12:45 PM
Subject: [LACTNET] Confusion


> Marianne -- you and I and everyone can indeed use our own internal "smell
> test" to make decisions on ethical matters.  Had you been editor-in-chief 
> at
> JHL, you'd have made a different call.  And that would have been your
> prerogative.

**Hmmm... my prerogative... If I am the only one, I think it would be wise 
for me to reconsider my views. If it turns out I am part of a big majority, 
I think we have a different situation.
I don't know about associations in the US, but in the Netherlands the board 
of an association is supposed to represent the opinion of the majority of 
the members. To find that out, the annual general meeting serves to address 
issues considered relevant and brought up in the agenda by either the board 
or the members who can add topics to the suggested agenda, which only then 
gets its final form.
Sorry to be so persistent, but if the majority of ILCA-members would feel 
that an ad like the Lansinoh one on the May issue *with regard to the 
text/content* does not pass the IBCLC-smell-test, based on how they 
interpret the Scope of Practice and the Code of Ethics, I think it should 
not appear another time. I'm not a lawyer, so it's fairly easy to beat me 
when it comes to specific rules. It's fairly hard, though, to beat me when 
it comes to logic, clever and ethical thinking, because I'm hard to persuade 
without good arguments. I have not heard good arguments in favour of the 
Lansinoh-ad so far, unfortunately, but am open to hear anyone explain how 
the text helps to protect, promote and support a natural way of 
breastfeeding. Be my guest, indulge me! ;-)

Warmly,

Marianne Vanderveen IBCLC, Netherlands

P.S. This discussion is not only about this ad... it is about 
Wiessingerizing what we say or imply. If *WE* don't watch our language and 
what we extend to colleagues, new and experienced... who will?! 

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