If God wanted women to breast feed their babies, He would have created breasts with milk in them and not have created baby bottles and formula.
Not too long ago, when Trump was being questioned about a questionable real estate deal at a deposition, the lawyer who had a 3-month-old daughter requested a medical break to pump some breast milk. In response to Trump’s objection to taking that break she took out her breast pump to show that her request was urgent,. Trump hit her with,
“You’re disgusting”.
and then quickly left the room.
Breasts have their purpose, and feeding babies, apparently, isn’t one of them.
It was a simple thing, a resolution to encourage breast-feeding, that was expected to be approved quickly by the hundreds of government delegates gathered in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly this past spring.
After all, a mother’s milk is healthiest for children and countries should limit the misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes, especially when the fact that most baby formulas have to be mixed with water that in some countries is not clean or safe, and when mothers are given a supply just large enough to begin feeding their babies with no way to re-up the supply whether because of lack of supply or being too poor to purchase more.
Breast feeding builds the baby’s immune system and protects against diarrhea, respiratory tract infections, ear infections, and devastating intestinal disease mostly affecting premature infants. Breast feeding may cut a child’s risk of developing allergies, asthma, and obesity.
For the mother, breast feeding can reduce the chance of breast and ovarian cancer, obesity, heart disease, and possibly, endometriosis.
Nurse researcher Diane L. Spatz, lactation program director at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has explained,
“For any new mother, breastfeeding may not come intuitively or naturally and it may require a lot of work. …We need to help mothers set realistic goals and provide education, support and care to reach those goals,”
The $70 billion formula industry is dominated by a American and European companies, and as more women embrace breast-feeding they have seen sales flatten in wealthy countries, so the developing world has become the sales target. i
When the resolution came up, the American officials present sought to weaken it by removing language that called on governments to “protect, promote and support breast-feeding” and called on policymakers to restrict the promotion of formula because they are not as healthy as mother’s milk.
Ecuador, which had planned to introduce the measure, was informed that if it refused to drop the resolution, Washington would unleash punishing trade measures.
Todd C. Chapman, the United States ambassador to Ecuador, suggested that the Trump administration might also retaliate by withdrawing the military assistance it has been providing in northern Ecuador as protection from Colombia,
An Ecuadorian official has said,
“We were shocked because we didn’t understand how such a small matter like breast-feeding could provoke such a dramatic response.”
Talk about bullying.
Health advocates needed to find another sponsor for the resolution, but the poor nations in Africa and Latin America that were present declined in fear that they too would get the Ecuador treatment.
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This approach was tantamount to blackmail, with the U.S. holding the world hostage to its support of those corporations that manufacture and promote their formula for profit.
Russians ultimately stepped in to introduce the measure appearing as the rational voice.
Russia was not threatened.
A Russian delegate said the decision to introduce the breast-feeding resolution was a matter of principle.
“We’re not trying to be a hero here, but we feel that it is wrong when a big country tries to push around some very small countries, especially on an issue that is really important for the rest of the world.”
The State Department declined to respond to questions, and the Department of Health and Human Services, which had made the effort to modify the resolution, in spite of people at the meeting including delegates from the United States who know what happened as they witnessed it, said H.H.S. was not involved in threatening Ecuador.
“The resolution as originally drafted placed unnecessary hurdles for mothers seeking to provide nutrition to their children. We recognize not all women are able to breast-feed for a variety of reasons. These women should have the choice and access to alternatives for the health of their babies, and not be stigmatized for the ways in which they are able to do so.”
One would think that HHS was aware of the existent of Wet Nurses.
Health officials were surprised by how strongly our country opposed the resolution, but, the simplest explanation being the most likely, it could be simply that the Obama administration supported the World Health Organization’s longstanding policy of encouraging breast-feeding.
Beyond the threat to Ecuador, some American delegates suggested the United States might cut its contribution to W.H.O.
People’s health is not as much a priority of the Trump administration as is corporate profits,
We have seen this in North American Free Trade Agreement talks. The administration has pushed language to limit the ability of Canada, Mexico and the United States to put warning labels on junk food and sugary beverages.
At this past spring’s Geneva meeting, besides opposition to the breast feeding resolution, the United States succeeded in removing statements supporting soda taxes from a document advising countries with soaring rates of obesity.
The Trump administration has increased its opposition to modifying patent laws, a modification that would increase drug availability in the developing world. This administration action was in support of the pharmaceutical industry.
From the Paris Climate Accord to the Iran Nuclear Deal to NAFTA to NATO the Trump administration has been damaging international relations, and is now causing lasting damage to international health institutions like the W.H.O. which has been vital in containing Ebola and the rising death toll from diabetes and cardiovascular disease in poor countries.
America’s tactics were not totally successful as the resolution kept most of the original language, although, in spite of four decades of research having established the importance of breast milk, which provides essential nutrients as well as hormones and antibodies that protect newborns against infectious disease, the United States did get language removed that called on the W.H.O. to provide technical support to member states seeking to halt “inappropriate promotion of foods for infants and young children.”
Corporations can freely advertise while those promoting breast feeding are muted because the United States also insisted that the words “evidence-based” accompany references to long-established initiatives that promote breast-feeding.
“Evidence based” makes research and observation subject to false objections, much as is done with climate change especially when it would require blind studies that would provide one group with breast milk and another with breast milk substitutes.
Human experimentation on the lives of children.
“I’m pro-life and I have been pro-life,” Trump says. “It’s an issue and a strong issue.”
Pro life unless that gets in the way of corporate profits, or the child lives in one of those “shithole” countries.