What is La Leche League smoking?
La Leche League, that fervent international advocacy group for all things mammarian, has always talked a heavy nature-equals-nurture line. For the Leaguers, breast-feeding isn’t only the best source of sustenance for a baby physically but the quintessential maternal experience. But now the group has gone off the milky deep end, and its swimming buddies are right-wing Christians and fanatical biological essentialists. With their decision to book speaker Tricia Shore for an upcoming dinner celebrating the organization’s 50th anniversary, the fertile founders have allied themselves with some bizarre notions of family. (Full disclosure: We got the press release tip from a group that calls itself Adoptive Parents Anti-Discrimination Committee.) Known as the “comic mom” in her stand-up career, Shore, writing under the name Tricia Smith Vaughan, has long propounded noxious views about the absurdity of “two-mommy” households and the tragedies of “artificial” family making via adoption. “I don’
