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Digest Katie Allison Granju <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 16 Jun 1998 22:36:45 -0400
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> When her baby was hungry, Tatiana Cheeks did what
> comes naturally -- she breast-fed her. When her baby died of
> malnourishment at 6 weeks, Cheekswas arrested and charged with
> criminally negligent homicide. Who really is to blame? The health-care
> system that turned her down when she sought help or the age-old
> practice of breast-feeding our babies?  By Dawn MacKeen.
> <http://www.salonmagazine.com/mwt/hot/1998/06/16hot.html>
>



By the way, after you read this horrible thing, check out the *other*
articles on breastfeeding that Salon has run. They have links to them at
the very end of this article. This is the most influential magazine in
American life today and it is so clearly anti-breastfeeding. A letter
writing campaign is definitely in order.

Katie Allison Granju
Knoxville, TN

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