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To: PleaseNoMore; Motherbear

Give up, ladies. Look at what we're debating here. There are moms who say, "I want to feed my hungry baby under a blanket in a public place." Then you have the others who say, "I do not want you to feed your hungry baby in a public place."

The fact is, a baby is hungry. The ASSUMPTIONS are, the mother is doing it to show off, etc.

It does absolutely no damage to the onlookers who would rather complain than avert their eyes to see a nursing mother. It does, however, hurt the hungry baby that doesn't get to eat and doesn't understand why not. Whose rights are being trampled here?


320 posted on 05/01/2005 10:55:19 AM PDT by tuffydoodle
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To: tuffydoodle
I understand your point about "nutrition". But you are still not addressing the fact that as a mother -- you might consider nursing in more private venue. Sorry, but the "food court" is a VERY public venue. This woman CHOSE to nurse in public. Other women CHOSE to locate a much more private venue.

Mothers CHOOSE when and where to "nutrition" their young. Just because you are nursing mother, and in a public location -- DOES THIS GIVE YOU "SUPREME RIGHTS" over anyone else's? Do nursing moms have "preferential rights" over... the public, private businesses? Who granted them this?

Choice! The mantra of the "free world". Ergo, if so, then those in public who object to "even under a blanket" in a public place -- do not qualify as "voyuers", tuffydoodle. These people have choices too. Or, should people with this perspective of not wishing, even under a blanket-breastfeeding" be required to answer "survey" questions prior to entering a public place.

"You, ma'am, before you enter this store or this mall.. you do you object to Public/discreet breastfeeding"? If yes, you may not enter the mall.

Is this what is next? If private businesses wish to invoke this law, that is their right. But it is presumputuous for a nursing mother to think her rights as a "nurser" precede those of the storeowner, or even those also in the location alongside you with all their full and equal civil rights. No one *has* to agree with YOUR choice in nursing or in location. Can you agree with that?

330 posted on 05/01/2005 11:22:24 AM PDT by Alia
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