06-26-2008, 08:06 AM
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Money: 3,681 | Re: Nursing in public What's so funny is breastfeeding laws are being made in recent years.
Breastfeeding officially became federally legalized in the United States in 1999.
A United States House of Representatives appropriations bill (HR 2490) with a breastfeeding amendment was signed into law on September 29, 1999. It stipulated that no government funds may be used to enforce any prohibition on women breastfeeding their children in Federal buildings or on Federal property. Further, U.S. Public Law 106-58 Sec. 647 enacted in 1999, specifically provides that "a woman may breastfeed her child at any location in a Federal building or on Federal property, if the woman and her child are otherwise authorized to be present at the location."
So like, haven't humans been around for thousands of years? And laws still need to be passed to allow it? ;/
I found this interesting.
In November 2006, Emily Gillette, a 27-year-old from Santa Fe, New Mexico was refused service in Burlington, Vermont after being asked to leave a Freedom Airlines flight by a flight attendant after Gillette refused to breastfeed her child under a blanket. |
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