From: "Naomi Bar-Yam" <[log in to unmask]>
> P.S. I do think it is interesting that Barbara Walters changed her tune
> on what her comments about bfing were. I don't think of it as lying,
> but that the pressure brought to bear made her want to distance herself
> from her comments. That's not a bad thing. Would have been better to
> own up to them and say she learned something from the nurse-in, but do
> we really expect that today? Barbara Walter's mountain moved just a
> little, let's take a moment to enjoy that.
(Well, Barbara might have to own up to her comments) - see below
( I think we've just changed from being "radicals" to being "underdogs")
Janice Reynolds
(please distribute widely)
NURSE-IN MOTHERS AND SUPPORTERS VINDICATED: THANKS JIMMY KIMMEL!
As seen on Tuesday (07 June 2005) night's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live (also
an ABC show), Barbara Walters clearly says "It made us uncomfortable"
referring to a woman breastfeeding her infant on an airplane. This flies
directly in the face of her statement and a phone call she made live to The
View yesterday, where she claimed it was only the man sitting in the seat
next to her who was uncomfortable, as she claims, many men are.
Barbara Walters and the other ladies on The View are in the middle of a
larger debate now regarding attitudes towards breastfeeding and nursing in
public because of recent statements they have made that have angered and
hurt a lot of nursing mothers in the larger public.
In fact, so many mothers are upset by the general anti -breastfeeding
atmosphere of The View that "Nurse-Ins" were staged all across the country
on Monday. By far the largest, with between 200 and 300 mothers, the
Nurse-In in NYC outside of ABC Headquarters triggered smaller Nurse-Ins that
were staged in Charlotte, NC, Cleveland, OH, Louisville, KY, Tucson, AZ, and
Redding, CA. The mothers were exercising the rights of their children to
eat whenever and wherever they needed to.
Multiple requests by the mothers to have a representative on the show to
participate in the debate have been refused.
See a clip of the Jimmy Kimmel show here:
http://www.zippyvideos.com/137928795382655.html
or here:
http://www.zippyvideos.com/114716894382615.html
For more information, please contact Ashley Clark by email at
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