OK, now I'm really mad. If the premise for keeping the FLDS children in custody is that they are in imminent peril of being sexually abused or brainwashed, why are nursing mothers being kept from their babies? ("Texas judge won't allow nursing polygamist moms to stay with seized FLDS kids," Tribune, April 22.) You can't indoctrinate nursing babies. You can, however, harm them irreparably by keeping them from the best form of nutrition they have. Is Texas going to monitor these babies for the rest of their lives and assume the cost for treatment of all the diseases that we currently believe breast milk gives children a head start against?

Judge Barbara Walter said that every day in our country nursing mothers return to work after maternity leave. There is one big difference. Whether those mothers returned because of financial or other circumstances, they had a choice. These mothers have had this very basic choice taken away.

Have common sense and due process of law become mutually exclusive in our country? I am so ashamed. I don't want to be a part of a government that has no heart.

Michelle Rollins

Salt Lake City