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Letter: How bad could it be?

Editor, Gazette-Journal:

“Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.” —D.H. Lawrence

Pioneer American women lived and crossed the continent in Conestoga wagons for up to a year with their families. Today, 102 years after their daughters go the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a crisis has hit modern American women, bringing them to their collective knees. WWII American women won the war working in factories at home, and nursed and cared for their families while their men served in Europe and the Pacific. Fifty years since Miss America’s 1968 bra-burning declarations of feminism and even less than six years since the women’s marches of 2016, our current mothers are devastated by “The Great Baby Formula Shortage of 2022!”

Today, fewer than 25 percent of American women nurse their babies. Thus the shortage of 2022 is a major American dilemma. Mothers...

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