Surgeon-General encourages breastfeeding to lower healthcare costs
Americans don’t hear much from U.S. Surgeon-General Regina Benjamin, but on Thursday, she issued a news release urging “everyone” to “help make breastfeeding easier.”
Boobs. That’s right, we said boobs.
(Sorry, but we’re trolling for search engine traffic and using the word “boobs” usually brings in lots of hits. But in our defense, it’s appropriate for this story.)
Ahhh, now we remember Regina Benjamin. She's the fat Surgeon-General who said the rest of us need to lose weight.
CNSnews.com has the story:
Americans don’t hear much from U.S. Surgeon-General Regina Benjamin, but on Thursday, she issued a news release urging “everyone” to “help make breastfeeding easier.” She cited the “health benefits” of breastfeeding for baby and mother, and pointed to a study saying that breastfeeding would save billions in health care and other costs…
Everyone? We applaud Surgeon-General Regina Benjamin (although we have to admit we’ve never heard of her) and suggest that this program would prove a lot cheaper and a lot more popular than ObamaCare. Especially if it’s taken to the extremes that Saudi women have taken it in an effort, apparently, to assure the continued good health of Saudi cab drivers.
Please allow us to reprise this story from the IHTM files:
Saudi women plan to turn a controversial fatwa (religious ruling) to their advantage and launch a campaign to achieve their long-standing demand to drive in this conservative kingdom. If the demand is not met, the women threatened to follow through the fatwa which allows them to breastfeed their drivers and turn them into their sons.
We would imagine it's very easy for Saudi women to hail a cab these days
The campaign will be launched under the slogan: “We either be allowed to drive or breastfeed foreigners,” a journalist told Gulf News. Amal Zahid said that their decision follows a fatwa issued by a renowned scholar which said that Saudi women can breastfeed their foreign drivers for them to become their sons.The renowned scholar said Saudi women can breastfeed their foreign drivers for them to be become their sons and brothers to their daughters. Under this relationship, foreign drivers can mix freely with all members of the family without breaking the Islamic rule which does not allow mixing of genders. Breast milk kinship is considered to be as good as a blood relationship in Islam. “A woman can breastfeed a mature man so that he becomes her son. In this way, he can mix with her and her daughters without violating the teachings of Islam,” the scholar said.
If there’s anything that can bring our two cultures together, this may be it.
Let’s just rename it The Cab Driver Health Act of 2011.
