Mary Kay, you wrote:

"Your statement re: "donating" your IBCLC to help this student avoid a
lawsuit may place you at risk for one. While your "I fight authority" stance is
noble, and hopefully done in the spirit of fellowship for a new member-to-be of
our profession, you may place yourself at risk for this statement. It cheapens
the credential and negates the importance of the time and effort made to obtain
it as well as the value of having it. Saying this with over 2000 witnesses
could be regretable."

First, l have to say that I don't share my credentials nor would I respect or
honor anyone that used credentials they didn't earn themselves. This is about
a student  who wishes to take the exam to be an IBCLC.  She unknowingly puts
two words together that are considered the basis for legal action.   I would
think the purpose of threating legal action on someone for use of an unearned
professional title would be because our society does not want to be deceived.
Publicly threatening a student who wants to be an IBCLC about the use of the
title seems like a reaction gone overboard.  Was this student trying to
deceive us and our society?  I don't think so.  If I was that student, I would have
second thoughts about wanting to be part of this professional organization.

I am not sure why you took my comment of donating my credentials as serious..
 Let me explain why I wrote what I did.  The IBLCE is spending its time
chasing down and threatening a student for wrongful use of the IBCLC title.    In
the meantime I believe we have the greatest threat to the preservation of
breastfeeding looming over the horizon--patenting of human milk components.
Actually it is already here since Newburg has already gone public with the fact that
they are patenting.  The IBLCE supports intellectual property rights
(patenting is the major part of intellectual property rights).  Is this what our
profession is going to be all about?   It certainly is going to make the legal
profession rich by resorting to court actions but it may bankrupt lactation
consultants.  And that doesn't even address the issue of the WHO Code and how
destructive this human milk component patenting is to breastfeeding.   I view this
situation as similiar to the story of Nero playing his violin while Rome
burned.  What is important to our profession?
Valerie W. McClain, breastfeeding advocate

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