Breast feeding, yay or nay? Options

[*My Cinderella.*]

So I've been reading a lot about how people are protesting agaisnt breast feeding in public. I personally don't see anything wrong with it. I mean they can breast feed where ever they please.

What's your opinion?

[*Zatanna*]

I sent a PM to Jane asking where she wanted this topic, and since it really could fit in a few places, I'll go ahead and move it back to News, per her answer. :)

---> Back to News

Since I'd like to keep the News forum somewhat consistent, I'm going to add an article.
Controversy over breast feeding in NYC store

(Times Square - WABC, September 14, 2006) - A young mother is demanding an apology after she claims she was harassed at the Toys "R" Us store in Times Square.
The mom was breast feeding her 7-month-old son in the back of the store when she says a sales person told her it was "inappropriate" and then called security.

Seven-month-old Mason Meyerson has no clue his hunger put him in the center of a civil rights debate between a toy store giant and the New York Civil Liberties Union.

"It was harassment, it was uncomfortable, it was embarrassing, it was demeaning," Chelsi Meyerson said.

The Brooklyn mom claims that while her husband and daughter were playing nearby, four Toys 'R' Us employees demanded that she stop breast feeding saying it was inappropriate with kids nearby.

"I was on the second floor near the Lego table where there was nobody else playing. I put myself discretely on the floor ... I didn't have a blanket over me but my shirt was covering everything. You couldn't see any skin," she said.

Toys 'R' Us told Eyewitness News that they maintain a company-wide policy to accommodate nursing moms, saying: "Ms. Myerson was breast feeding on the selling floor was in fact asked by store associates if she would be more comfortable in a private environment. When she said no, store associates left her to continue breast feeding without interuption."

Fiction, says the nursing mom, who adds that surveillance video will prove otherwise. Civil rights lawyers say this is about public health not public morality.

Donna Lieberman, NYCLU: "Toys 'R' Us has to train its employees and post signs saying you have the right to breast feed in our store."

And that's not just her opinion, that's state law. Twelve years ago, the NYCLU lobbied for and secured the passage of a statute that said a mother can breast feed her baby at any location -- public or private -- where the mother is authorized to be.

I really think people need to get over it. Breast feeding is very natural. A brief glimpse of boob isn't all that shocking.