Mothers Needed for New Mexico Breastfeeding Legislation Hearing
February 3, 2007 by Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor
Filed under activism, law
Lissa wrote to the Yahoo Lactivism group about legislation on the ballot in New Mexico and she’s given me permission to share her email here:
“My name is Lissa and I am a member of the New Mexico Breast Feeding Task force, I have an Masters in Public Health, I am working on my PhD in Health Communication, and I am, of course, a proud breastfeeding mamma of a beautiful (and healthy) 2 year old.
Currently we have two bills that have been introduced into the NM 2007 legislative session. HB 613: Breastpump Use in the Workplace and SB 170: Expand Jury Service Exemptions. You can find them both at the NM Legislative Website.
This Tuesday [February 6, 2007] HB 613 is scheduled to be heard by the House Labor and Human Resources committee. We are looking for employee-breastfeeders or employers who support breastfeeding to attend the committee meeting which starts at 1:30 p.m. in room 305 of the Capital building in Santa Fe.
Please email me directly if think you can be at the hearing, you’d
like to be added to our NMLACTLEG listserv, or you have questions
about New Mexico Lactation Legislation group. My email address is
lissaknudsen@gmail.com.”
Good luck Lissa and all New Mexico lactivists! Keep up the good work!
Hurray! Glad something is being done in support of us breast-feeding mothers who must return to work. My boss has suggested that I pump in the ladie’s bathroom, when she herself is a woman and has stated she has breastfeed her children. How gross, unsanitary, among other things is it to have to breastfeed in the bathroom? I’m taking it as if breastfeeding is something we should be ashamed of, and lets make her breastfeed somewhere that is rather uncomfortable and most of all, completely down-right gross!