Wordless Wednesday
Photo Copyright Photographer Rachel Valley Much of my work as a breastfeeding advocate/lawyer is about securing a right for mothers to be in public space. That means having a protected legal right to...
View ArticleBreastfeeding and the Law in New York – Another News Report that Misses the...
Last year Julia Acevedo-Taylor claimed she was rudely asked to leave a Manhattan chocolate shop because she was breastfeeding her five month old. Last month, she filed a lawsuit against the shop. I'll...
View ArticleWest Virginia’s Pending Breastfeeding Bills: I Have Good News and I Have Bad...
West Virginia is one of only three U.S. states (along with Nebraska and Idaho) that has no law whatsoever protecting breastfeeding. So I was glad to read that this month not one but two bills were...
View ArticleTennessee Legislature Considering Eliminating 12 Month Limitation in Public...
Since its passage in 2006, Tennessee's public breastfeeding law has been trouble. It reads: 68-58-101. Right to breastfeed in any location. — A mother has a right to breastfeed her child who is twelve...
View Article“The Talk” on Breastfeeding and The New Federal Workplace Pumping Law
The latest "sorta famous women sitting in a semi-circle talking about things they know little about" daytime show is called "The Talk." You probably know lots more about it then I do. It looks like...
View ArticleWill Nebraska Finally Get A Public Breastfeeding Law? Will it Matter?
Only three U.S. states have no public breastfeeding law – West Virginia, Idaho and Nebraska. Unfortunately the majority of state public breastfeeding laws don't do a particularly good job of stopping...
View ArticleWordless Wednesday: Breastfeeding in Disaster
I saw this painful photograph in a museum in Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the bomb that the U.S. dropped on this woman and her children in Nagasaki, Japan. Karleen Gribble shared both this...
View ArticleGoodbye Mothering Magazine
I first saw Mothering magazine in the waiting room of my midwife in 1996. I didn't read parenting magazines but this one was clearly written for me. Breastfeeding, co-sleeping, baby-wearing,...
View ArticleOh Dear, Bad West Virginia Breastfeeding Bill Might Pass This Time
West Virginia has the honor of being one of only two U.S. states (W.V. and Idaho) that has no public breastfeeding law whatsoever. Since the vast majority of states have unenforceable public...
View Article“In a Country with Billboards Covered in Tits”: Breastfeeding in Public...
"Viral" YouTube videos showing up in my Facebook or Twitter stream usually make me change mental channels faster than spam about my need for assistance with erectile dysfunction. And, I am ashamed to...
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