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Hurrah for Michelle Obama coming out in favor of breastfeeding.    (See the New York Times article about Mrs. Obama’s promotion of breast feeding as part of her program against childhood obesity.

Boo to Michelle Bachmann (who breastfed all of her children) and who has now criticized Mrs. Obama as promoting a “hard left” position of governmental control.  Please note Mrs. Bachmann that the government is not paying for breast pumps but offering tax deductions for these costs if tax payers itemize their deductions.  (My understanding is that this means that the breast pumps would be treated like other health-related or work-related expenses.)

Boo to Sarah Palin who just said in Woodbury, New York that “nobody is more qualified to multitasking and doing all the things that you need to do as president than a woman, a mom.”

What is more synonymous of multi-tasking and being a mom than breast-feeding?   Seriously–it is a lot easier to nurse and tweet than heat up formula, clean and wash a bottle, and tweet.

More and more evidence of the incredible range of benefits of breastfeeding for both child and mother comes to light each day.  Of course, not all women are able to breastfeed; but many many more women choose not to breastfeed, or not to persevere in breastfeeding, due to lack of accurate information about its benefits and all kinds of thoughtless cultural prejudices.  Hurrah for Michelle (Obama) for bravely using her bully pulpit to counteract these prejudices;  boo to Bachmann and Palin for their infantile hypocrisy.