Lawmaker wants to ban baby bottles, favors breast-feeding
Motherly love has become a state affair in Venezuela, where Congress is set to start debating legislation that would punish the use of baby bottles to try to encourage breast-feeding.
In explaining the proposal, legislator Odalis Monzón said the bond that is established between a mother and her newborn child while breast-feeding is at risk because of the “transnational companies selling these [dairy] formulas.”
For that reason, Monzón said, the Family Commission she presides at the National Assembly has drafted a piece of legislation to ensure “that every child has the right to breast-feed” to the extreme of banning the use of “baby bottles and bottles.”
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