It's not the Human Rights of the mother ... it's the Human Rights of the 
Child.  The baby has not signed papers giving away the right to a 
mother's breast.

Society needs to change in order to put the needs of the newborn 
citizen, first.  When it does that, it will be a saner, healthier, and 
wealthier society.  So much waste, in not attending to the basic primal 
needs of the mammalian young: the cost high in terms of a lifetime of 
insecurity and health issues.

Better to protect the baby, and work the society around that essential 
need, as opposed to centre it around the need to "get on with things".

The entire concept of the mother being free to give freely to the needs 
of a mammalian newborn in microcosm, and macrocosm.  In the domestic, 
the freedom to ignore the housework and sit with the baby, and in the 
macro, the freedom to contribute to the outside world, in a meaningful 
way _with_ the baby.

So many people are reacting to this, as the concept that in order to 
free yourself from sexual discrimination, you must free yourself from 
your essential biology and act as if you are a single male at work... is 
a feminist approach we've seen cause more problems, and make babies even 
less of a priority than they were.

Yes, we need to work on a better system universally, whilst allowing 
local independence and diversity.  No, we do not need to accept that the 
way forward, is to deny the essential need of the baby, to be with its 
mother.  We can work on ways to ameliorate than when it is presently 
unavoidable.  But many of us feel that it should never be suggested that 
it is DESIRED that the separation is an advancement.  Or acceptable.  It 
is unacceptable.  However, if it's all you've got to work with, you have 
to do so.  But that's not the same as saying it's acceptable, or 
appropriate.  It is important to say it is unacceptable, even if it is 
unavoidable.

:-)

Morgan Gallagher



Margo Trueman wrote:
>  Pardon my ignorance, but can it be considered a human rights issue when the mother reenlisted knowing she was due for drill or slated for deployment after her baby reaches the 6 month age mark?
>
>   

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