From: ScottW48@hotmail.com   
      
   “We are concerned about breastfeeding promotion that praises breastfeeding   
   as the ‘natural’ way to feed infants,” wrote Jessica Martucci of the   
   University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Anne Barnhill of   
   Johns Hopkins University    
   in the journal Pediatrics. “Promoting breastfeeding as ‘natural’ may be   
   ethically problematic, and, even more troublingly, it may bolster this belief   
   that ‘natural’ approaches are presumptively healthier.”   
      
   Martucci and Barnhill explained that in the 1950s and 1960s, a movement of   
   women sought to promote breastfeeding in the wake of advances in medical   
   formula technology — an approach that the researchers find “ethically   
   problematic” because it may “   
   support biologically deterministic arguments about the roles of men and women   
   in the family” — for example, “that women should be the primary   
   caretakers of children.”   
      
   “Referencing the ‘natural’ in breastfeeding promotion, then, may   
   inadvertently endorse a controversial set of values about family life and   
   gender roles, which would be ethically inappropriate,” they state.   
      
   The researchers were also concerned that such rhetoric “may ultimately   
   challenge public health’s aims in other contexts, particularly childhood   
   vaccination.”   
      
      
   I'm concerned that this epic level of stupidity may ultimately be our greatest   
   challenge.   
      
   ScottW   
      
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