Harassing Breast-Feeding Mothers Could Lead To Fines

local6.com ^ | October 10, 2005

[cloud8]

If you go to the site, you can take a poll, too.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Just because you have the right to do something doesn't make it smart.

[Brilliant]

Seems like a penalty on freedom of speech. I don't think that calling speech "harrassment" makes this constitutional.

[RexBeach]

I am utterly amazed. But at least they're trying to make a clean breast of the situation.

[RexBeach]

I am utterly amazed. But at least they're trying to make a clean breast of the situation.

[Hildy]

Wait a second...do you think they'd DARE fine people who harrass people smoking in legal areas???

[mlc9852]

Just as long as women get what they demand, the rest of us just have to shut up and deal with it. Mothers these days seem so totally self-absorbed and selfish. Once you become a parent, you should put the needs of your child first. If you don't want to do that, maybe you shouldn't have children.

[DB]

I agree.

Asking someone to cover up and forcing them to are two completely different things.

[linkinpunk]

These reports of harassment are only the nip of the iceberg.

[Kenton]

I have to pee. If it wasn't for the women here at work, I could just pee in the waste basket. But noooooooooo, I got to walk all the way to the Men's Room.

It ain't fair...

[edcoil]

So now we need a new law to give women the right to bear their breasts in public.

When did we raise a generation with such low class. Is it too much to ask them to wear a shirt or use a blanket/towel?

[agrarianlady]

Once you become a parent, you should put the needs of your child first

You mean like feeding them?

[HarleyLady27]

But its ok to let a pregant woman have her 'tummy' hanging out in view....when I was pregant I wore 'maturnity clothes' whats wrong with that today?

[mlc9852]

Yes, feeding them in PRIVATE!!! Is that so difficult?

[mlc9852]

You need a lawyer!

[MineralMan]

"I have to pee. If it wasn't for the women here at work, I could just pee in the waste basket. But noooooooooo, I got to walk all the way to the Men's Room."

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Ah...the first post equating a woman feeding a baby with excreting urine. Very good.

[dinodino]

I nursed my baby, and if anyone dared say anything uppity or "offended" to me about it, I would have told them to f*ck off and mind their own business.

If they were smart enough to realize a mother feeding her young is kind of, um, fundamental, then they never would have said anything in the first place.

Most people are too stupid.

[1rudeboy]

Hey, you wanna do it in public? I wanna watch.

[Halls]

the poll is all wrong. It does not give you the choice to say that breastfeeding in public is fine with me. It basically assumes that all people don't like it. Rediculous!

[Cathy]

This is silly. They are implementing fines because people are getting offended.