Breast Feeding Kills!

[AnnieBW]

http://www.slate.com/id/2196784/ (HUMOR ALERT!)

Breast-Feeding KillsThe pro-life case against birth control, nursing, and exercise.
By William Saletan

Dear Secretary Leavitt:

I am writing to express my support for the draft proposed regulation, presently being circulated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which would protect the right of employees to refuse to facilitate any abortifacient chemical or activity. Under the draft proposal, the federal government will use its grant-making power to compel private employers to respect this right of refusal. My concern, Mr. Secretary, is that the proposal does not go far enough.

Based on this generous standard, I hope you will agree that employees deserve protection when they decline to facilitate additional activities that pose an equal or greater risk to the embryo. Specifically, I call to your attention the problem of breast-feeding.

Thousands of people working at hospitals, lactation centers, maternity-product retailers, drug stores, and supermarkets are presently required by their employers to participate in breast-feeding, either by teaching it or by providing products that facilitate it. Those who refuse can be terminated at will. They endure this discrimination despite clear scientific evidence that breast-feeding poses the same abortifacient risk as oral contraception.

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[Ellen Forradalom]

1. Ahahahaha

Nothing like good old reductio ad absurdum.

[ismnotwasm]

2. I love it

That asinine regulation just boggles the mind. The fact it isn't being laughed out of countenance is appalling.