Medical exam mom awarded extra time for breastfeeding “disability”
I’m gonna start calling breastfeeding a “disability” since some lactating women feel they deserve special concessions. I think formula feeding moms should be given extra time to take board tests too. What if the formula fed baby feels slighted and emotionally damaged from someone else giving them a bottle? It just isn’t right. The injustice of it all!
Breastfeeding mothers must be so fragile and physically limited since they cannot even take an exam, so a Judge and an opportunist decided.
Honestly, if Ms. Currier is afforded extra time, so should everybody else, in my opinion:
In overturning a ruling that denied Ms. Currier the additional 60 minutes of break time she requested, Judge Gary Katzmann said yesterday that she needed the extra time so she could be on “equal footing” with men and nonlactating women taking the test.
The medical examining board said that although it planned to appeal, it would give Ms. Currier the additional time if Judge Katzmann’s order is still in effect when she takes the exam, set for next week. She must pass the exam, which tests clinical knowledge, to receive her medical degree. Without it, she cannot start her residency at Massachusetts General Hospital.
In the 26-page ruling, Judge Katzmann said refusing to allow additional time meant that Ms. Currier must choose to either “use her break time to incompletely express breast milk and ignore her bodily functions, or abdicate her decision to express breast milk, resulting in significant pain.”
Information from: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/educat...
