Nursing Mother “Bullied” for Breastfeeding in South Carolina Wal-Mart
November 12, 2008 by Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor
Filed under activism, breastfeeding, law, nursing in public
First a swimming pool change room in Ontario, now a Wal-Mart dressing room in South Carolina…. Business owners need to recognize that there are laws that prevent them from asking nursing mothers to move to a changing room to breastfeed! In this latest incident, nursing mother Heather Silvis said she had just sat down on a bench in the store and had not even begun to nurse her daughter when a supervisor and four Wal-Mart employees began yelling at her that she couldn’t breastfeed there. Local news WISTV quotes Ms. Silvis:
Then one of them stood up and pushed my shopping …read more
