Nanny state, for real: Feds won’t even trust parents with a baby pillow

The Podster is the poster child for bureaucratic overreach, says Frida Ghitis .

The federal Consumer Product Safety Commission has labeled the Podster a “substantial product hazard” and demanded a full recall.

Ghitis: The agency has drifted into overreach and defines “risk” in increasingly abstract and paternalistic ways.

Clear, objective standards will protect consumers without punishing responsible parents or businesses. Parents deserve safe products, but they also deserve the freedom to make their own choices — without a nanny-state government treating them like they can’t be trusted with a baby pillow. Bethany Mandel writes and podcasts at The Mom Wars and is a homeschooling mother of six in greater Washington, DC ..