The post-nanny state
Mayor Bloomberg is pushing hospitals to hide their baby formula behind locked doors so more new mothers will breast-feed…Under Latch On NYC, new mothers who want formula won’t be denied it, but hospitals will keep infant formula in out-of-the-way secure storerooms or in locked boxes like those used to dispense and track medications. With each bottle a mother requests and receives, she’ll also get a talking-to.
It could be worse. Indeed, it is worse: if you’re a scientist who studies whales, you might be accused of the “environmental crime” of “harassment” of a life-form. Downsize, radically downsize.