Hi, all: I'd like to take issue with the comments about biblical mothers including Mary not "whipping it out indiscreetly". I personally have seen paintings of the Madonna and Child from the Byzantine and Renaissance eras with the breast very clearly exposed. No one seems shocked about this. It appears that opposition to "whipping it out" is a more recent phenomenon. The legislative efforts are attempts to separate breastfeeding mothers from those who expose themselves for other reasons, even if they expose their breast and nipple in the process of feeding their child. In Auerbach and Riordan's textbook, there is a description of Muslim women in Saudi Arabia who are heavily veiled over their entire body, but think nothing (and neither does their society) of exposing their breasts in public to feed their children. It appears that aversion to seeing breastfeeding mothers is our own society's phenomenon, probably related to the sexualization of the breast. Alicia. [log in to unmask]