Just because Kansas passed a law upholding a mother’s right to breastfeed in public doesn’t mean ordinary Kansans, or even nursing moms, got that needed message.
That’s why it’s a good idea the La Leche League and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment have started handing out some 40,000 breastfeeding “licenses” that women can carry with them to produce if they are confronted in public.
Of course, it’s sad that mothers would even need to carry permission to meet the food needs of their babies — but it’s a good idea, considering the number of ill-informed people who take it upon themselves to hassle nursing mothers.
As Brenda Bandy of La Leche League pointed out, the cards “might just be the little bit of added confidence some moms need.”
Posted by Randy Scholfield
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In one pocket she needs the license for breast feeding, the other could be the gun license to conceal and carry if someone complains to harshly. Her breast may show a little, but so could handle of her gun.
It’s too bad society needs such licenses. I think more public breast feeding is preferable to concealing guns. She may want the power to really protect her rights.
I don’t know about others, public breast feedings never bothered me. Concealed and carrying a gun bothers me more.
What kind of nut compares breastfeeding and concealed and carry. Get a life!!!
Who do they think are going to ‘confront’ these women? Only the police care about licenses. Are they not supposed to know the law already?
Gooberment in action.
I remember reading some professional hoaxter demonstrating years ago to make breas feeding illegal, as a joke. Only in Bush/Republican America has it become a real issue!
Careful Randy, you may get charged by Kline for running the ‘pornographic’ picture above!
I don’t have a problem with public breast feeding. If these women want to show there breast, I’m willing to give them what they want….attention.
Good advertising! Paul Davis gets credit for introducing a bill that is opposed by absolutely no one, making it appear he is busy doing “the peoples work” and fighting for the rights of women!. (Wish I could get a bill introduced based on a single complaint)
The Kaw Area Breast Feeding Coalition, ProKanDo, March of Dimes, and La Leche League of Kansas get their names on a bill justifying their grants from the social engineering foundations.
Women get the right to beg off jury duty and show thier tits where ever they want.
Men get the right to watch.
Last but certainly not least…Steve gets the right to declare that it’s all Bush’s fault and Republican’s are out to get him and somehow this can all be tied to Kline hunting down breast feeding women. (and you wonder why they call you moonbat)
It’s a backward country when you see more breast exposed at the local high school prom than in a room full of nursing moms, but it’s the nursing moms that get everyone upset. The last thing a nursing mom wants to do is flash anyone-I know I’ve had 4 kids in 8 years & have been nursing most of that time. I have never been told to leave or stop, but I have many friends who have been told “you can’t do that here.” I have been on the recieving end of some pretty nasty looks. SO I applaud this bill & the cards that explain it to the idiots out there who think nursing is only suppose to be done in the bathroom or on your own sofa.
Andrea,It’s a backward country when you see legislators passing laws for a problem that no one can even identify more than one complaint about.You yourself as an 8 year veteran admit that you have never been told no, yet many of your probably less experienced friends have experienced it. Sounds more in line with, “I’m a victim” syndrome to me.
As far as nasty looks go, did you ever stop to think that maybe the looks could be a bit of shock and embrassement, combined with hoping not to to be accused of being some sort of perv, for gawking at you?In any event, I have never once ever seen or heard of a business or public place that actually told women that they could not feed their kid. I’ve only heard the mythical claims. Thanks to this law, we now have one place that can discriminate against breast feeding women. Our courtrooms!
Why is this even an issue? I’ve maybe seen a dozen instances of public breast-feeding in my whole life. That tells me that breast-feeding mothers are very discreet or there really aren’t that many.
“As far as nasty looks go, did you ever stop to think that maybe the looks could be a bit of shock and embrassement, combined with hoping not to to be accused of being some sort of perv, for gawking at you?”
What’s shocking about mother putting child to breast? That’s about as natural as it gets. The embarassing thing is the reaction. Polite people just look away because it’s none of their business.
So you are defining what is ‘polite’, xxx? Sorry, pal, but if I see a breast, I’m lookin. And if the women is so ‘progressive’ that she feels she has to feed her baby in public, I doubt she minds someone looking.
I agree that public breast feeding is minimal. Our elected officials have way more important issues to resolve, LIKE SCHOOL FUNDING, to spend time on public breast feeding.
That’s a little sick, vj. You’d get off on watching a lady’s breast with a kiddie attached to it? Oh yeah, that’s sexy.
No wait, that lady is feeding her baby with her nasty, dirty sex pillows because she harbors a burning secret desire to be a stripper. Unfortunately, she never had the guts to follow through on her dreams to star across Jenna Jameson. So now she has feed her desire for attention by popping out a kid so she can be nearly topless in public.
BECAUSE, folks, we all know that breasts were made to entertain MEN. That’s what they’re there for. Forget all the feminist propaganda about “nourishment” and “cost-efficiency” Those boobies were made for TWEAKING!
/sarcasm
Republicans find breast feeding almost as titilating as Clinton’s sex life!
The nursing mothers I’ve seen in public expose much less of their breasts (baby’s heads are pretty big) than many young women who dress (undress?) in the latest fashion. Anyone who can look at a breatsfeeding woman and think it’s fun to gawk is pretty immature in my opinion. Get a life, vj.
Look how backwards your fucking country is! You need to enact a law for women to nurse their babies! Woe, to you great harlot Babylon.