The article that Heather sends in says, "Allen gave birth over five 
months prior to her termination from [Isotoner]. Pregnant [women] who 
give birth and choose not to breastfeed or pump their breasts do not 
continue to lactate for five months. Thus, Allen's condition of 
lactating was not a condition relating to pregnancy but rather a 
condition related to breastfeeding. Breastfeeding discrimination does 
not constitute gender discrimination....."

Very neat reasoning:  the mother's choice to (gasp!) breastfeed, 
required time-consuming extra breaks to pump for the stay-at-home 
baby, but hey, it's a free world and the mother chose to do it, 
didn't she??  So she should pay .....right?

Wrong!  This is what happens when we allow ourselves to be duped by 
current politically correct notions of maternal empowerment.  They 
always come back to bite us.  Firstly, women who CHOOSE to breastfeed 
should not be characterized as the exception.  Instead we need 
recognition that lactation and breastfeeding are the physiological 
consequences of pregnancy and birth and that choosing NOT to 
breastfeed is the exception.

Secondly, the idea that women should be encouraged to "choose" 
whether to breastfeed, or not, is a ploy.  What is _not_ recognized 
until it's too late is that when women exercise the dubious "right" 
of making their own infant feeding choice, rather than requesting 
current evidence-based "advice" from their healthcare providers about 
the health consequences for the _baby_ - they also accept, by 
default, the responsibility and blame for making a "wrong" choice.

Pamela Morrison IBCLC
Rustington, England

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