In most States breastfeeding is a legally protected activity. That’s the difference.
Legally protected exposure as well?
Leaving the legal wranglings to others, I think breastfeeding should be accommodated generally and performed discreetly.
Yeah, I looked it up. Yer right. Here’s Vermont’s law:
This act states that the general assembly finds that breastfeeding a child is an important, basic and natural act of nurture that should be encouraged in the interest of enhancing maternal, child and family health, and amends the discrimination laws to provide that a mother may breastfeed her child in any place of public accommodation in which the mother and child would otherwise have a legal right to be.
Oh well. I’m wrong.
You know really freaks out the boobie flippers?
Stop and watch....lick your lips.....they will cover up real quick...
My wife hates it when I do it...but it ALLWAYS works...
I once asked a woman sitting with her man in the middle of the food court at the mall....”since you got one out..can I see the other?”
Even her man laughed...but if looks could kill, she would have struck us both down.......boy I bet he was in trouble when he got home...
*snicker*
Its not illegal to have sex either, but the seat of an airplane is a bad choice of locations.
If its inappropriate for a non-lactating breast to be hung out in public, so too is it inappropriate for a lactating breast to be hung out.
Covering up is quite simple and in no way hinders nursing.
As these cases always seem to involve a nursing toddler (or older), I chock it up to crazy women on power trips.
In most States breastfeeding is a legally protected activity. That’s the difference.”
Is there not an expectation of some level of modesty on the part of the breastfeeding mother?
I agree that breastfeeding is ‘natural’, but I certainly don’t expect to pay for an airline seat and have a boob hanging out in the aisle seat.
She was politely asked to cover up her chest and she refused.
I hope the judge throws this out and gives her a tonguelashing at the same time.
Just to muddy the mix. FEDERAL law requires passengers OBEY crew member instructions. Airline flights are interstate trade. FEDERAL law likely has jurisdiction.
IMHO.
Legally protected, maybe. But, in this instance, it seems like a reasonable request for the mother to observe some degree of propriety and decorum in the confined space in which this took place. Just seems to be common sense...
But, common sense is in pretty short supply these days.
This is a federal lawsuit. There is no federal “right to breastfeed.” It would be interesting to know whether she is bringing a state law claim in federal court, or if she is trying to make a Title VII claim out of this.
If it’s a federal claim, that would explain the three year time lag. You have to file an administrative claim before filing a federal claim, and that can take three years.
In any event, I hope she loses.
Yet in some of those same states, a woman just wiping out a boob in public for fun would be in legal trouble. I have no problem with women breastfeeding an infant, but there are ways to do it without making a public spectacle of it.
The double-standard is stunning. Whats wrong with discrete?