Yes, anything to do with breasts lends itself to jests, but Bloomberg’s war on formula is actually appalling. Amy fills us in on the really bad news from the Big Apple:
“New York City already has an aggressive program to promote breastfeeding called Latch On NYC, and the city’s health department has convinced most hospitals to stop distributing free formula samples to new parents. But that apparently still made it possible for some mothers to bottle-feed their newborns. So starting September 3, the city will urge hospitals to put formula under lock-and-key. Parents who want to bottle-feed their infants will have to convince a nurse to sign out formula for them by giving a medical reason for every bottle. They’ll also have to endure a lecture about why they really should be breastfeeding instead.”
With Bloomberg at the wheel, New York is becoming more and more like an Upper West Side version of Singapore. It’s remarkable how closely these restrictions track those used in anti-abortion states to interfere with a woman’s right to an abortion. Until now, it was hard to imagine that the right of a woman to decide how the hell she would feed her own baby could even be the topic of discussion. But, now, thanks to Big Mike’s jackboot mentality, this right is about to be snuffed out in the five boroughs. Michael Bloomberg: getting worse by the month.
