Enforcement of a licensing requirement for people who provide lactation care and services in Georgia is on hold pending the outcome of a lawsuit challenging it.
A provision of a 2016 law that requires lactation consultants to be licensed by the state is set to take effect Sunday. A lawsuit filed Monday by the Institute for Justice argues the requirement would keep unlicensed lactation professionals from being able to do certain things that are required by their jobs and violates their right do their work “free from unreasonable governmental interference.”
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Mary Jackson, who works at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and has provided hands-on help for new mothers struggling with breastfeeding for nearly three decades, and Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere, or ROSE, which aims to increase the number of women of color who breastfeed their babies.
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