I guess its both where you're starting from, and how successful 
approaches have been in the past.

The Sexual Discrimination angle has not been successful here, although 
it's not as bad as the terrible situation Jake describes, in the USA, 
where being pregnant isn't seen as anything to do with Sex Discrimination.

Equally, positioning it as the right of the child to milk, has had 
progress, when Sex Disc hasn't.  Milk only being about food, isn't such 
an issue, if nothing else works anyway.  Starting _somewhere_ it's 
what's useful.  :-)  But I do feel speaking on behalf of the child, is 
vital, in the longer term.

At the end of the day, it's what works.  I just find it curious it works 
so well under maternity provision in Australia, when you don't have paid 
maternity leave!

Morgan Gallagher

Karleen Gribble wrote:
> My personal opinion is that sex discrimination legislation is a good 
> place to position all of this...I don't see positioning the right to 
> breastfeed in public as about the child's right to food as all that 
> helpful, the idea that breastfeeding=food and only food is a problem. 
> However, sex discimination legislation covers all breastfeeding women 
> regardless of the age of the child, whether the woman is lactating, 
> whether the child is hers or not. The only situation it doesn't cover 
> is male breastfeeding...
>

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