The Lubbock nurse-in led tonight’s local NBC evening news cast. The KCBD video broadcast reported that over 30 breastfeeding women showed up at the First Friday Art Trail at the Buddy Holly Center to applaud the city’s decision to overturn its ban of artwork depicting a breastfeeding mother and a nude pregnant woman. Both the artist Lahib Jaddo and the model Annie Harrison were present. The local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union says the City of Lubbock supported the breastfeeding women in attendance by providing chairs and breastfeeding-friendly food. The City of Lubbock is working toward an agreement …read more

The artwork shown at left was one of two pieces banned from an art show at the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, Texas. According to the artist Lahib Jaddo, city official Scott Snider rejected the work over the telephone without ever having seen the actual sketch. The local television news reports that the city has since apologized and promised to review its policies, but the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and Birth Without Boundaries plan to go ahead with a nurse-in scheduled for tomorrow, Friday, January 4, 2008.
Lubbock, Texas Nurse-In
Date: Friday, January 4, 2008
Time: 5:45 pm
Place: Buddy …read more

Mothers returned to Dallas-Fort Worth Airport this morning for a repeat rally, both to support nursing mother Emily Gillette and to seek an apology for how the Texas mothers were treated at the initial rally.
This time the rally went off without a hitch. While the original rally consisted of five mothers and nine children, the second rally included 27 adults and 28 children–that will teach the airport security a lesson for sending them away the first time! Those ladies came back with a vengeance, albeit a polite and peaceful vengeance.
Only one other nurse-in out of the

Texas mothers plan another nurse-in at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport (DFW) this Friday, December 1, 2006, at 10 a.m. at the Delta counter in Terminal E of the airport.
According to participants, when five mothers and nine children originally gathered at DFW for the national nurse-in on November 21, they were harassed by airport security and threatened with arrest for indecent exposure and disorderly conduct. Mothers participating in this second nurse-in not only will gather in support of the mother kicked off a Delta flight for nursing without covering up, but to insist that the airport police (Department of Public Safety officers) …read more

When a mother in Texas was asked to leave a movie theater for refusing to cover up while nursing, I wondered about the status of the Texas law. It was not clear whether the police officer called to the scene was correct in stating that the law protecting a mother’s right “to breast-feed her baby in any location in which the mother is authorized to be” cannot be enforced on private property. It seemed that the breastfeeding law conflicted with the trespassing law which allows a private property owner to ask someone to leave the property.
A discussion on the Mothering …read more

The mother asked to leave the movie theater for nursing in public accurately quoted the Texas Health and Safety Code regarding breastfeeding in public:
§ 165.002. RIGHT TO BREAST-FEED. A mother is entitled to breast-feed her baby in any location in which the mother is authorized to be.
Was the police officer correct in stating that the statue can only be enforced on public property, and that a private business owner can ask a mother to leave?