260.992 Breast Feeding:
MSSNY supports the following initiatives in regard to breast feeding of infants:
(1) Educating its members about the process and benefits of breast feeding.
(2) Encouraging innovative and educational programs for use in medical training about the clinical benefits and process of breast feeding.
(3) Cooperating with other professional medical groups to encourage breast feeding education programs at national and regional meetings of pediatricians, obstetricians, and family physicians.
(4) Encouraging all of its members, regardless of specialty, to offer professional and emotional support for their patients who are breast feeding mothers.
(5) Continue to support the law that women may not be charged with indecent exposure or lewd behavior as a result of breast feeding in public. (HOD 1993-27; Modified and reaffirmed HOD 2014; Reaffirmed HOD 2024)
