I do not want to dictate to anyone about formula per see, but I do want to make sure hospitals provide a standard of care consistent with best practices- you entirely miss the duty that hospitals owe to patients first, over their "duty" or "right" to be a marketing arm for formula companies- I do not think it right that a hospital put a stamp of approval on formula (an inferior food source for babies) by giving out samples to new mothers. Hospitals should not be giving out samples for other inferior treatments either- for example, homeopathic treatments that are not the standard of care (and which are grossly inferior to other treatments) should not be given out by hospitals either.
Hospitals, unlike grocery stores (which can give out free formula with impunity, as far as I'm concerned) owe us a duty of actually providing us with reasonable health care- they are not marketing organs, rather hospitals are health care entities, that are supposed to give us reasonable health care- health suggestions that go against public policy and the majority opinions of doctors do not seem in the best interest of patients. Now you could claim that a hospital dispensing formula sample doesn't put any imprimatur on the samples, but I don't see how you could reasonably argue that.
Clearly you think the marketing of formula by hospitals so important, you do not care if mothers mistake the dispensing of formula by the hospital to be a tacit approval, or even encouragement, of the use of formula.
If I really wanted to dictate, I'd go after formula everywhere- I just don't think it's appropriate for hospitals to do this- that's a different issue, and of course it's a difficult issue, which is why you generalize and do not address it.
And generalizing about the left on this, when the right wants to crawl in the womb with women and make their decision over giving birth, seems a little....bizarre. Talk about propensities to dictate. SD, that's the kind of "dictation" we see from the right... Oh yes, it's SO wonderful not to be able to decide whether to carry a pregnancy to term or not. Such freedom (especially if you are a victim of rape or incest- I find that particularly liberating. How grateful women must be. How libertarians must adore the decision in SD.)!!! This has absolutely nothing to do with formula and hospitals, of course, but everything to do with your point about the "left" dictating to people. |
