According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, there is no dispute about the benefits of breastfeeding an infant. “Most health professionals are familiar with the benefits of breastfeeding,” the organization says on its website. “The AAP continues to support the unequivocal evidence that breastfeeding protects against a variety of diseases and conditions.”
In addition to a long list of health benefits for the infant, there are significant health advantages for new mothers as well.
However, according to leftist academics, breastfeeding is “ethically problematic.” Want to guess why?
Campus Reform has the details: “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 […]
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