This is an important point about which there is much confusion.  The RMH is 
a public accommodation (private space into which the public is invited). 
NIP laws which use "any place she has a right to be" language implicitly 
include public accommodations which means public accommodations are treated 
the same as any public or non-private (private being a private home) space. 
Other laws are more specific in including the term "public accommodation" or 
the language "any place, public or private."  So from a legal standpoint, 
the protection of the right to breastfeed is the same at a RMH as at a park 
or a mall.

Yours,
Jake Marcus, J.D.

Chris Mulford wrote:
"I'm not a lawyer (thank goodness!), but it's common sense to me (no pun
intended) that nursing in public...say, in a park...is not entirely the same
situation as nursing in the common room of a shared living arrangement. A
bystander at RMH has fewer options for avoiding something that disturbs them
than a bystander in the park. I fervently support the right of the mother
and child to breastfeed/nurse both in the park and in the common room at
RMH. I'm just saying that a casual passer-by in the park is not in the same
relation to the nursing mother as another resident of RMH, who we can assume
is dealing with a major stress and is just as worried about her/his child as
the nursing mother is about her child." 

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