> Janice notes this loophole in Texas breastfeeding law
> >
> >"Under Texas Law, breastfeeding in public is legal," Watson said. "But on
> >private property, people can assert their own standards or moral conduct.
> If
> >people are offended and complained to the management, the management can
> ask
> >someone to leave."
> 
> I think the key to closing this hole would be to point out that
> breastfeeding is a matter of
> identity, not "conduct."  Physiologically normal babies breastfeed, and
> need to do so
> often.  It is central to their identity.  Excluding a breastfed baby for
> breastfeeding seems
> pretty similar to excluding an Asian person for being Asian, or a woman
> for being female.

I think that most people would feel that breastfeeding is more akin to a
religious garment.  They would feel that while a breastfeeding baby might
prefer to be breastfed that s/hr could, if circumstances required it, be fed
in other ways - the way New York City attempted to require their subway
drivers to remove turbans.  

I don't remember what the outcome was in NYC and I don't know what type of
protection would be afforded in privately owned accommodations in Texas.  

That being said I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV.

Jessica Mattingly M.Ed, CCE, LLLL, IBCLC
Kansas City, MO

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