Australian Breastfeeding Association investigate counsellors for using term 'mother'

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Reports in the Nine papers revealed the Australian Breastfeeding Association has investigated several volunteers for allegedly using words such as ‘mother’ and ‘women’ excessively.
The association’s former breastfeeding counsellor Jasmine Sussex was accused of hate speech for saying only women breastfeed.
Ms Sussex said “it’s been pretty heartbreaking to watch the Breastfeeding Association really torture itself to try and appease this tiny minority of counsellors”.
“We can only hope that the Breastfeeding Association will focus back on what’s important, which is mothers who are calling the helpline today,” she told Rita Panahi.
“So they need to be able to get through on the helpline and would probably help if the ABA hadn’t sacked a whole heap of long-term breastfeeding counsellors so we could answer those phone calls.”

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