Being of Scottish ancestry myself, may I be permitted to see the humour in this? > Women could be given the legal right to breastfeed in public in Scotland > under new proposals to be unveiled this week. > The idea has been under cover for a while, I guess. > The bill is being proposed by the Labour MSP Elaine Smith who was herself > banned from breastfeeding in a supermarket cafe and banished to a toilet > several years ago. > But we see that she did, in fact, get herself and her baby out. > It should be as easy and socially > acceptable for a mother to choose to feed her baby herself as it is for her > to produce a bottle. > I have, personally, found it easier to produce breastmilk than bottles. > The Scottish parliament has introduced a raft of > measures which have not yet been adopted south of the border, including a > ban on fox-hunting, the replacement of student tuition fees and the adoption > of free care for the elderly. > Nurslings are in good company, then. This is good news, indeed. Jo-Anne, slightly giddy this afternoon. :-) > > > > > *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html