<[log in to unmask]> wrote:


> While I agree that being told not to breastfeed is a difficult,
> embarassing situation, it is not a dangerous, nor painful experience. It
> creates a lot of strong feelings, but for the most part, people are not
> physically injured.

People are physically injured, and people are killed. The horrendous
vilification* of breastfeeding mothers is a strong disincentive to
breastfeeding altogether. When breastfeeding is made much more difficult
then artificial feeding, mothers stop doing it. And babies die from not
being breastfed every day.

Lara Hopkins

* This isn't hyperbole, as Morgan Gallagher's blog post on the subject
makes abundantly clear:

<http://one-of-those-women.blogspot.com/2009/02/lactaphobia-language-of-
hate.html>

 

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