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.
Yep. It's sorta like asking your significant other if they love you.
If you have to ask them to say it, it sure doesn't mean much.
This mental midget regularly does this to be "in your face". A natural human function has nothing to do with it.
I would reply, "Apologize this!"
Why should you be concerned about Frist? He is saying deny these embryos their lives. You are for denying a child ( 3 to 5 years is a natural weaning age, see my posts on this) its birthright of mother's milk because of your own senseless hangups. Yes, let all those who would give the child its birthright stay inside the house with him or her for 3 years. Sounds rather like Taliban Thinking to me.
For me the word "like" is nonsensical in that sentence. Why would I like or dislike it?
For me it's like asking me "how would I like it if a waiter walked by?"... I understand all the words but the question makes no sense.
"...like toy trains..."
That is hilarious!
LOL
Still having reading comprehension problems I see.
Where this happened, there is a law specifically permitting it.
Recommened by whom? Most babies start growing teeth at about six months. God designed that for a reason.
Unless you were recently appointed "Grand Poobah" in your state, I suggest you examine the following carefully:
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt!
I'd have parked my coffee cup under it. None of that artificial coffee whitener for me. ;-)
My understanding of the health research strongly favoring breast feeding leads me to simply dismiss anyone who finds breastfeeding "inappopriate." Go for it Mom... anytime... anyplace. Take care of your baby and tell folks to take their moralistic squeamishness and stick it in their ear. Don't risk your kid's health to cater to them.
There is no great harm or source of outrage in a breast. Folks who think there is can (and will, if they love children more than being a busybody) change.
ROFL.
I'd have no issue with it. Whip it out!
Show me ONE expert who states formula is better than breast milk?
If you place all kinds of unreasonable restrictions on breast-feeding: locations, times, bla bla bla - you all but make it illegal. You'll have "practically" outlawed it, without directly stating that. You must allow a mother the flexibility to feed her kid when she needs to, and this can't always be perfectly timed or meet your requirements of decency.
A mom feeding a kid is not high on the list of “worries” in my life. Except for some "Super Trooper park Ranger" and you, not many people actually care about the sight of a woman nursing.
Red6
I am a 100-percent diehard conservative. That means I am pro-life, pro-gun, pro-death penalty, anti-tax, anti-socialism, and despise Democrats and RINOs with a passion that words can never describe.
Well -- based on your profile -- you don't think much of the right of a mother -- who actually had her child -- to feed that kid when hungry.
If you are so anti-government interference, perhaps you can swallow your uninformed indignation long enough for a mature woman to feed her child, even if it must be done in public.
BTW -- your profile matches my beliefs -- right up to the part where you arbitrarily "despise Democrats and RINOs with a passion that words can never describe."
Most intelligent, thoughtful, educated, conservatives don't go around despising people for their views. We disagree, we argue passionately, and we work to prove them wrong. But we don't despise people for being wrong or misinformed. (Fortunately for you -- I might add)
My wife, who I met in the third grade, and who is the mother of my three children, 6 and under, has breast fed our children, when necessary, in restaurants. I don't recall her ever "whipping out out a boob." She and most adult, intelligent, committed, women have no interest in whipping out boobs and offending others, or even exposing themselves. Of course, they are not going deny their children sustenance on the off chance that someone like you is sitting close by.
The good news is -- I suppose, that you are likely never going to be eating in the same restaurant as me -- as we tend to dine out in places that do not permit cutt-offs, tank-tops, and flip-flops. I hate to sound like a snob -- but your views on this issue are remarkably foolish -- and your identification of yourself as a "conservative," in light of these views, does a disservice to those conservatives, like myself, who must bear the cross of your idiocy.
Comparing breastfeeding to a couple of perverts performing is my nomination for "IDIOT REMARK OF THE YEAR".
I am neither. Learn how to read.
Thank you for reinforcing my initial impression of you. Troll.
I second that nomination.
Yes.
What was the problem?
No.
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