November 27, 1999

To all our breastfeeding-supportive colleagues:

Recent events/decisions made by ICEA prompt us to have to resign our
positions as Consultants to this organization.  We feel that our friends in
the breastfeeding community need to be aware of our decision in order to
understand that we do so with reluctance. However,  continuing to lend our
names to the organization may negatively affect our respective reputations
as supporters of breastfeeding, as vocal supporters of the WHO Code, and as
persons who see no point in accepting advertising from companies whose
profits derive from bottle-feeding and/or the sale of equipment used to
bottle-feed an infant or young child.

Whether the actions undertaken in ICEA's name derived from the decision of
one or two individuals or the entire Board is, unfortunately, beside the
point. We recognize, however, that implying Board approval/endorsement in
its absence suggests additional difficulties for the organization which can
only be put right by the entire membership.

Persons who have presumed, as we did, that ICEA fully supported and endorsed
the WHO Code and the statement on breastfeeding which they adopted years ago
may wish to reconsider their own involvement with ICEA.

We continue to wait for acknowledgement by ICEA of our recent letters
regarding the actions that have prompted our resignations.

Sincerely,

Kathleen G. Auerbach, PhD, IBCLC

Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC

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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly
disguised as impossible situations."
Kathleen G. Auerbach,PhD, IBCLC (Ferndale, WA USA) [log in to unmask]

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