La Leche League Erases Mothers

Woman breastfeeds her little three-week-old child. (Photo by Steve Christo/Fairfax Media via Getty Images)
The charity that taught me how to breastfeed is eliminating women by calling it ‘chestfeeding.’
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We’re told that women can do it all, and let’s be honest: that’s a lie. I can’t open a jar as easily as my husband; I can’t pee in the woods as easily as my sons. But there’s one thing I can do that they can’t, and that’s create a new person and sustain their life with milk made exclusively by my body.
I’ve made six people (that takes roughly ten months …

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