No More Cooing Aloud, Allowed.
The moonstruck left has yet again pushed the envelope in the furtherance of ridiculous and inane bureacratic measures, this time under the guise of: human rights.
From BBC/England:
A West Yorkshire hospital has banned visitors from cooing at new-born babies over fears their human rights are being breached and to reduce infection.
(snip)
Some new mothers have already said they are astonished by the rules which stop people asking questions about their babies or looking at them in maternity wards.
Debbie Lawson, neo-natal manager at the hospital's special care baby unit, said: "Cooing should be a thing of the past because these are little people with the same rights as you or me.
Now call me old fashioned, but have you ever met a mother that doesn't like her baby to be fawned over and payed considerable attention? Me neither.
Not even Ayn Rand in the heady days of her "civilization is the pursuit of privacy" would have envisioned such stewardship of our privacy placed on the shoulders of weak kneed social engineers.
However, if the fountainhead behind such a movement stemmed from the latter reasoning given by West Yorkshire Hospital , that this was also to help prevent spreading of infection, I would be pacified in my antagonism. I'm no expert on appropriate maternity ward governance, infact, far from it, but somehow I doubt this provided the impetus behind the ruling.
Human rights, political correctness, and secularism while providing some good, also combine to purge society of rational reason if left unchecked and unchallenged. It is time to tighten our collective fists around the reins of common sense.
~Jeff
From BBC/England:
A West Yorkshire hospital has banned visitors from cooing at new-born babies over fears their human rights are being breached and to reduce infection.
(snip)
Some new mothers have already said they are astonished by the rules which stop people asking questions about their babies or looking at them in maternity wards.
Debbie Lawson, neo-natal manager at the hospital's special care baby unit, said: "Cooing should be a thing of the past because these are little people with the same rights as you or me.
Now call me old fashioned, but have you ever met a mother that doesn't like her baby to be fawned over and payed considerable attention? Me neither.
Not even Ayn Rand in the heady days of her "civilization is the pursuit of privacy" would have envisioned such stewardship of our privacy placed on the shoulders of weak kneed social engineers.
However, if the fountainhead behind such a movement stemmed from the latter reasoning given by West Yorkshire Hospital , that this was also to help prevent spreading of infection, I would be pacified in my antagonism. I'm no expert on appropriate maternity ward governance, infact, far from it, but somehow I doubt this provided the impetus behind the ruling.
Human rights, political correctness, and secularism while providing some good, also combine to purge society of rational reason if left unchecked and unchallenged. It is time to tighten our collective fists around the reins of common sense.
~Jeff
posted by Anonymous at 18:36
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