Military Moms Breastfeeding in Uniform Stir Controversy

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222. While a person does not have the right to decide how working parents get to

raise their children, employers do have the right to determine who they hire and who they promote. Employees require an investment of time and money and in this employment market there are far more qualified people then available jobs. My boss has a stack of resumes and gets more all the time. It is a employers market not a job seeker's market. All choices ever made result in certain consequences, that is reality.

As to women in the military. If military exercises are scheduled to take place next week, is a military mother going to bring her baby along (highly doubtful). Is her commanding officer going to allow her the time and a place to pump breast milk? Will the military give a mother the means to properly store the breast milk until the exercise is over? What if a mother's unit gets called up overnight? I doubt the baby will be traveling with her. What means does the military provide her so that she can continue to pump breast milk, refrigerate it and ship it home to the baby? If a military mother really wants to stay in the military then there might actually be some circumstances where a baby will need to drink formula, I think it will survive. Because death is always a possibility for anybody in the military doesn't it make sense for a baby to be adjusted to both breast milk and formula. Should the first time the baby drink formula be after the death of its mother?