Posted on 04/30/2005 5:56:16 AM PDT by tuffydoodle
Nursing mom gets unwelcome reception
FW mall says security firm made a mistake
10:37 PM CDT on Friday, April 29, 2005
By KARIN KELLY / WFAA-TV
For many mothers, breastfeeding is the most natural thing in the world.
But it turned into an embarassing situation that angered a North Texas woman this week after she said a mall security guard harassed her.
Adrian Sparks was shopping at Hulen Mall Thursday, and decided to discreetly nurse her eight-month-old baby under a blanket in the food court.
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Karin Kelly reports "The security guard came over and asked me to stop, and either go to the restroom or to leave," Sparks said.
The guard told Sparks a food court customer had complained, even though Sparks was covered with a blanket.
"I told him it was perfectly legal for me to nurse my child," Sparks said. "And that they sell clothes more revealing that what I was doing right here."
Of course, it is legal - but soon another manager approached.
"He said, 'well those rules don't apply because we're a private facility,'" she recalled.
Friends who breastfeed have rushed in for support.
"The human race wouldn't exist without breast milk," said nursing mom Rachel Tarbutton.
Some are members of La Leche League, an organization that supports mother's milk for health and bonding benefits..
"To know that she is getting everything she needs from me, from my body, is (important)," Sparks said.
Mall officials said the incident was not normal procedure, and that t heir new security company made a mistake.
"That is not a Hulen Mall policy," said manager Kevin Davies. " We support what she was doing, we support moms and all of our customers, and feel badly this occurred."
That's not all that reassuring for Sparks, though.
"I don't think I'll ever be able to shop there again, because I was just so upset about it," she said.
well, I have to tell you that I hardly ever if ever breastfed in public.....but if I had to do it, I did it, and it was always very discreet for my benefit as well as the poor public, having to see such a "spectacle"....
"Because I object to a woman revealing her breasts in public I'm a rapist? Wow. What an absurd comment."
I will not get sucked in to debating someone who will be purposely obtuse. Find someone else.
I will repeat your response to you, "I simply refuse to believe that you are so ignorant that you did not understand the point I was making."
I need to ping you to the other thread.
Hey ya'll,
imagine this...
A woman with a super-skimpy bikini with juuuusssttt enough fabric triangles to cover her nipples...
Why ~gasthsp!~~ I do believe we see pictures like that ALL the time here, followed by HUBBA HUBBA...
Now,
Put a baby's head in front of one breast...feeding (like it's been used since the dawn of time).
And now to some it's vulgar?!?!
"No, public breastfeeding doesn't enrage me . . . it disgusts me."
Xenalyte posted this quote on another thread, I thought it needed to be posted over here, since it applies.
You are such a nut.
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