Final Rally Tally
November 26, 2006 by Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor
Filed under activism, law, nursing in public, travel
The dust has settled after the national nurse-in on Tuesday, November 21, 2006, and the final tally approaches 900 activists and children at 40 airports across the country! I’m impressed by the tremendous grassroots effort organized in just four days’ time!
As I said, most of the press has been extremely positive. I’ve seen just a bit of backlash from letters to the editors of newspapers covering the story, and a lot of heated debate on news message boards.
Overall I think the nurse-in and subsequent media coverage reflected positively on a woman’s ability to nurse in public. Certainly women airline passengers can now breastfeed confidently, with or without covering up, and not have to worry about being harassed by airline flight attendants. I think the intense coverage of the issue will also make business owners in other industries think twice about asking a nursing mother to cover up. They just might realize they’d better watch out or they too will have 900 lactivists speaking out against their ignorance!
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