Posted on 05/20/2014 7:36:10 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Of all institutions, the National Restaurant Association ought to be exceedingly generous in welcoming nursing mothers into their affairs. Would any participating restaurant send a mother home for having an infant in her arms.
What is supposed to be so bad about a mother breastfeeding in public, and why are you so incensed about it??
The same people that go into a Chipolte Restaurant dressed like every leftwinger’s worst nightmare and carrying SKS and or An AK47. In that one, the only thing missing was a bible in the left hand of one of them.
10 day old? My wife and eldest daughter didn’t feel like walking outside 10 day after giving birth much less driving 20 miles and attending a trade show...
Actually, it’s not about her right to breast feed in public.
As the breastfeeding law expert in the story explains, a breastfeeding woman does not have a right to take her child where children are prohibited.
And children have long been prohibited at this trade show.
Don’t get me started on the vulgarization of motherhood. Why should a mother expect to be told she may not bring her utterly dependent infant with her? Are pregnant women also refused participation?
I'm not talking about bubble wrapping a kid for life. It just seems stupid to take a NEW born into that type of environment.
Me thinks mommy wanted some extra attention, by having her little dollie with her.
It’s weirdly fascinating.
_________________________
Yeppers. That’s why I posted it. I’ve got no dog in this fight. The sight of a boob feeding a baby in public doesn’t rattle my cage one way or another.
But it certainly does for others.
The trade show had a reasonable rule, and reasonable rules in such situations need to be enforced.
/johnny
This practical rationale wouldn't seem to apply to a tiny infant who can't walk, or even crawl, let alone run, and is plastered up against his mother's chest. He can't "get into things" any more than a preborn could.
ORrrrrrrrr...maybe people need to go back to yesterdays decorum.
THAT is a great point. I’m often on threads calling into question the motives of gun owners who parade around with their AR 15’s and such - just to call attention to themselves.
Are they any different that militant moms who breastfeed in public just to call attention to their cause?
She knew the rule but in her mind it applied to others, not her.
I think she might be ready for the federal Senate or the Presidency.
Or at the least, Attorney General.
Why could her husband not have gone to the trade show in her place?
According to the article, nobody observed her nursing the baby. The issue for the event security was simply the baby’s presence, regardless of how he was fed.
/johnny
“What difference does it make?”
“Stories of this kind are like a Rorschach test for commentators. It’s weirdly fascinating.”
Shows how fragmented and factionary FR has become, like Hussein’s new fundamentally transformed America.
At each other’s throats now over in-your-face/public breastfeeding.... mission accomplished.
The baby eats EVERY HOUR?
Yikes.
.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.