http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/213/213349_breastfeed_mum_collared_at_number_10.html?

This story is about a woman who helped deliver a breastfeeding 
petition to No. 10 Downing Street (where the Prime Minister lives - 
actually this particular PM lives next door at No. 11 but  the 
Cabinet meets at No. 10 and the PM's offices are there, too ).

She then sat on the doorstep and began to breastfeed.

Lo and behold, a policeman asks her to move.

Lo and behold, the mother is outraged and says she was humiliated.

I really, really don't care for breastfeeding gimmicks like this.

It makes no point about breastfeeding except, perhaps, that women who 
breastfeed are a bit silly.

No mother would be allowed to feed her baby a bottle, or coca cola, 
or a three-course dinner,  sitting on the Prime Minister's 
doorstep....she wouldn't be able to feed herself, either.

Maybe we think this is wrong.

Maybe we think the Prime Minister's doorstep should be accessible to 
everyone, and that in a democracy, we should all plan a summer picnic 
in Downing Street.

Maybe the police will disagree and throw us all in the back of a black van.

But that's a security issue, not a breastfeeding one.


Heather Welford Neil

NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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