The Republican lawmakers are upset with the efforts of U. S first lady, Michelle Obama to promote breastfeeding as a way to prevent childhood obesity and condemn this act as an imposition of nanny state on American motherhood.

Obama said that kids who are breastfed longer are less likely to get obese.

The anger of conservatives was further fuelled by Internal Revenue Service decision. The Internal Revenue Service has given upon his insistence and changed his stance, classifying breast pumps as tax- deductible medical device.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) had supported the change. The nursing mothers will be able to deduct the cost of breast pumps from their taxes as medical equipment.

The U. S Representative Sandy Levin, a Congressman from Michigan has classified breast pumps under essential medical expenses vital for improved childhood health and wrote a letter to IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman to review their decision to exclude breast pumps from tax-deductible category.

The White House has clarified that first lady isn’t trying to impose breastfeeding on anyone. A spokesperson of Obama said that first lady is aware that the decision to breastfeed or bottle-feed is of personal nature and she only intends to make it easy for nursing mothers.