Pennsylvania Ready for Breastfeeding Legislation after Berkshire Mall Nurse-In Success
February 25, 2007 by Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor
Filed under activism, law, nursing in public
Good news on the breastfeeding front in Pennsylvania. State senator Connie Williams has introduced legislation that would establish the Right to Breast-feed Act. If enacted as written, Senate Bill 34 would protect the right of a mother to nurse her child in public, prohibit a unit of local government from adopting an ordinance prohibiting breastfeeding in public, and provide that breastfeeding may not be considered a nuisance, indecent exposure, sexual conduct or obscenity.
That legislation is sure to receive a boost from yesterday’s nurse-in at the Berkshire Mall in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. Nearly 200 people turned out to support nursing mother Leigh …read more
