No, that legislation...the Breastfeeding Promotion Act...is not law. It has
been lingering in committee for years. There is protection on federal
property, but no national anti-discrimination law protecting breastfeeding
moms and children in all places of public accommodation, such as
restaurants, grocer stores, and airplanes, or places of employment.
Chris
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On Nov 20, 2006, at 7:41 AM, LACTNET automatic digest system wrote:
> - Call for all airlines to revisit their breastfeeding and transport
> of pumped breastmilk policies to support traveling families.
If I ma not mistaken, the transport of pumped milk that's been such a
problem recently is not airline policy, it is policy of the TSA, an agency
of the federal govt.
> - Call for immediate passage of pending Federal legislation that
> offers civil rights protection for breastfeeding women in the
> workplace; and new legislation to protect, on the Federal level, a
> nursing mother and child's right to do so whenever and wherever they
> are legally allowed to be.
I thought such legislation already exists. The question is educating the
public. The best way to do that is to nurse in public "early and often." The
more it is done, the less of a big deal it becomes.
Naomi Bar-Yam
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Mothers' Milk Bank of New England
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