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This would be a shock to the countercultural Catholic matriarchs who birthed this influential network
Is having children “liberal” or “conservative”? Obviously, that question is way too simplistic for the complicated age in which we live, so let’s be more specific.
OK, is it “conservative” for a husband and wife to have, oh, four or more children? If you have followed birth-rate trends in American culture in recent decades, you would have to say this choice is “conservative” and almost certainly “faith-based.”
This brings us to this week’s “Crossroads” podcast. Is it “liberal” or “conservative” for a mother to breastfeed a newborn? Actually, that choice is totally mainstream. Ah, but is it “liberal” or “conservative” for a biological male who to one degree or another has transitioned to “female” identity to, with medical assistance, “chestfeed” a newborn obtained via surrogacy or adoption? Is that choice “normal” or “natural”?
Apparently, some leaders with the La Lache League have decided that this influential national and global network — which promoted the return of breastfeeding for millions of mothers in the 1950s — have decided that it’s time to edit the word “motherhood” out of that equation. He is a chunk of the relevant feature by Bethany Mandel at The Free Press: “La Leche League Erases Mothers.”
The La Leche League website is both clear, and not so clear, about what is going on. Mandel noted:
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Crossroads -- La Leche League goes woke and embraces 'chestfeeding'
This would be a shock to the countercultural Catholic matriarchs who birthed this influential network
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