Posted on 07/30/2005 8:15:50 AM PDT by Asphalt
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Never mind officials voiding a $50 ticket for indecent exposure, or an explanation from county officials that a ranger who issued the citation to the breast-feeding mother was inexperienced.
Dorian Ryan said she wants an apology for what she called a "humiliating and degrading" experience.
"This isn't right. Women shouldn't be harassed for breast-feeding their children," Dorian Ryan said.
Colorado lawmakers agree. A law passed last year gives women the right to breast feed anywhere she's allowed to be in public.
Ryan, 43, was ticketed for indecent exposure July 14 when she breast fed her son at the Carter Lake swim beach in Larimer County. She was shielded from view by two umbrellas and a towel.
An inexperienced park ranger mistakenly issued the ticket, said Dan Rieves, manager of the Blue Mountain District, which oversees the beach. Park officials have voided the ticket.
Rieves, who has been in contact with Ryan, said a written apology would be sent Friday.
"A breast is a breast: not for public display,... or cleaning a windshield."
darnit, there goes my weekend job!
We have soldiers dying in other countries to eliminate terrorism. And these women are whining because they want to be able to whip their teats out in the mall, on the sidewalk, anywhere they want to. Yeah, the horrors of their humiliation and degradation. Spoiled brats.
Would a brutal storm-trooper police raid of a LaLeche group meeting float your boat? Bust all busts.
I am utterly baffled why you would find this "disgusting."
Google up "pickle park." THAT's disgusting.
We have way too many rules to enforce the important ones well.
You forgot that people will starve in Europe unless you eat your peas.
I agree that the forced apology is meaningless. However, the locality is likely considering it as a means of avoiding litigation. Studies have shown that a doctor simply swallowing his pride and apologizing, whether he feels it's necessary or not, can frequently avoid a lawsuit on the part of the patient. Then again, that's because 90% of what passes for medical malpractice lawsuits in this country is not actual malpractice, but the patient getting upset at an outcome that was known to be possible from the beginning, and simply wanting his/her ego assuaged over it. That being said, this woman will probably sue the county, no matter how obsequious the offending individual manages to be in the apology.
While I've certainly no objection to mothers breastfeeding in public, and realize that the officer did do something wrong here, I've got to say that this woman seems to care a little more about throwing the situation in the face of all parties involved, rather than simply being able to take care of her child. She appears to be itching for a fight. And for someone who states she was so humiliated by the ticket, why is she making such a spectacle of herself by taking a photograph for a newspaper in which everyone and anyone can see her breastfeed? All the breastfeeding mothers that I have known have always been rather discreet about feeding their child in public, while maintaining their right to do so. This woman certainly isn't so.
Here! Ok, let me think of the various places I nursed my son. . . the mall, Denver and Phoenix airports, John Hancock Tower and Navy Pier in Chicago, a multitude of family get-togethers, resaurants, parked cars, at a baseball game, rest areas off the interstate, in the back yard, at the pool, at church . . . and nary a ticket did I get! We always were very discreet and found a clean corner/dressing room/bench/etc, few if any people knew he was nursing, and I provided him with the best possible nourishment and bonding experience in the world.
If anything, I find it disturbing to see a baby at Walmart with a bottle full of manufactured formula propped in its mouth while Mom is doing her shopping.
Only if they are covered from head to toe, they cross the street to avoid sharing the sidewalk with males, and have a note from their husbands allowing them to be out alone. Needless to say unmarried women have no business being alone in public at all.
That cow needs an indecent exposure ticket!!
Yeah, Andy. That's what I thought. Thanks for explaining that to me, LOL! See ya 'round town. ;)
Do you have a reading comprehension problem? She already had that right:
"A law passed last year gives women the right to breast feed anywhere she's allowed to be in public."
You've got to be kidding. There is nothing even remotely sexual about breastfeeding an infant. If you see something sexual about it, then you should probably rethink that.
Breasts were intended for feeding children, not to be playthings. The fact that we have made them into that doesn't negate or supercede their original function. There is nothing nasty going on, and I think it's pretty disgusting that someone would find it sexual and be offended. Of course, it's not appropriate to "let it all hang out", but simply nursing your child doesn't require that, as everyone with common sense recognizes.
I was at a cousins graduation party and there was a woman there who was breast-feeding her kid while fixing herself a plate of food.
More than a few folks lot their appetites. That was a bit over the top, IMO.
Yes. Under a blanket, and off to the side. No reason for them to flash.
There are pluses and minuses to both breastfeeding and bottle feeding.
Don't make fun of the handicapped.
boob cops ping ;~D
If you were truly able to see the milk dripping from this woman's breast, then you were paying far too much attention. Either that, or you're exaggerating. I've sat in on lactation classes (for educational purposes) for mothers who want to breastfeed but are having trouble. And even sitting right next to the mother, I still couldn't see things in that much gory detail.
Look away.
moral debate ping
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