Health Ministry welcomes Fatwa Committee on human milk bank | My Sinchew

Health Ministry welcomes Fatwa Committee on human milk bank | My Sinchew: Health Ministry welcomes Fatwa Committee on human milk bank
News 2012-01-18 17:20
PAPAR, Jan 18 (Bernama) -- The Health Ministry today welcomed the declaration by the Fatwa Committee of the National Council for Islamic Religious Affairs that it is "haram" (prohibited in Islam) to set up a human milk bank.

Deputy Minister Datuk Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin said the ministry would also not encourage the setting up of such an institution.

"We have to know the woman who gives her milk to our children because there are elements on religion which have to be respected," she told reporters after presenting the living cost allowance to fishermen here today.

Rosnah, who is Papar Member of Parliament, said this in response to a media report last week on the decision by the national fatwa committee to a suggestion for the setting up of a human milk bank.

The committee is of the view that the creation of a human milk bank closely relates to the rules that would render it haram because when babies are breast-fed from one or more women they will become 'milk siblings' and marriage between the individuals is forbidden.

On today's function, Rosnah advised fishermen in the area to register with the Papar Fishermen Association to facilitate distribution of government aid to them.

A total of 502 fishermen received their monthly allowance of RM200 each at the function.

Human Milk News Facebook page taken down

If you are looking for the Human Milk News Facebook page... well, it's been taken down by Facebook. You can read all the gory details over here on my other blog, Jodine's World, but basically, Emma Kwasnica was again suspended from Facebook for having a breastfeeding photo up, I helped create a Facebook group to support her and my account was suspended for sharing the same photo - Human Milk News was also suspended. Another mom blogger's account was taken down just for sharing a message of support for Emma and breastfeeding women. Then this morning Facebook upped the ante and disabled my account and put Emma on a three day suspension and removed another of her breastfeeding photos.

Facebook harasses moms over breastfeeding photos

Over on Jodine's World I have a new blog post about my experience this morning - I woke up to find my Facebook account suspended over a photo of my friend Emma Kwasnica, breastfeeding her daughter.

http://jodinesworld.blogspot.com/2012/01/facebook-harasses-moms-over.html

Indiana Mother's Milk Bank opens 2nd milk bank collection depot in Kentucky

Indiana Mother's Milk Bank has opened a second out-of-state collection depot with a Lexington, Kentucky depot joining the one in Louisville. The Indiana Mother's Milk Bank also operates seven in-state collection depots at Bloomington, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Lafayatte, Michigan City, Muncie, an South Bend.

"Lexington organization, Mother Nurture, to house a human milk donation drop off site | Our Neighbors and Families: Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Lexington business Mother Nurture – a Breastfeeding Resource Center and Baby Boutique – will join forces with the Indiana Mothers’ Milk Bank to collect donor human milk at the first donation drop off location in Central Kentucky beginning Jan. 26. Carefully screened donors will deliver their human milk to Mother Nurture’s Milk Depot, where it will be frozen and stored until it is transported to the Indiana Mother’s Milk Bank, which provides pasteurized donor human milk to ill or premature infants throughout Indiana and the Midwest...."