Everyone in the USA:

Please send me your anecdotes about breastfeeding in the workplace, which would
support the need for breastfeeding legislation.  Give me as many particulars
as possible, let me know how public you want the notes to be, whether you
think the person involved would be willing to appear before the media, etc.

Just so I can toot my own horn, I'm including here the note I got from the
legislative aide working on this.  If you want the full text of what I wrote to
her, please email me personally at <[log in to unmask]>, and I'll send you a
copy.


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From:          "Ravnitzky, Gail"
To:            "J. Rachael Hamlet" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:       RE: breastfeeding legislation
Date:          Thu, 29 Jan 1998 11:21:34 -0500

Rachael, you have done a great job in compiling this information.  Many of the
suggestions for other future legislation were already on a back burner and
we'll keep looking at them, while many of the suggestions will be incorporated
into the bill as the drafting process continues.

Thank you so much for all of your help.  You mentioned you had also received a
number of anecdotes and stories supporting the need for such legislation.
Those would be very very helpful to us in terms of putting together press
conferences and answering media calls from around the country (although not all
of them would have to go public).  If you could help us develop a list of
stories in one document, that would be immensely helpful.  The stories could be
problems at work in trying to pump milk, people being docked pay for
breastfeeding, bad breastpumps, etc.

Thanks again for your help.

Gail