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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo...you can open carry loaded weapons (in some states) but nursing your baby in public is not okay?
wow, America.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)but that's America.
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)Violence good, sex bad.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Bullets are God's divine blessing.
The Roux Comes First
(1,298 posts)dilby
(2,273 posts)I live in Oregon and breastfeeding in public is legal here.
pnwmom
(108,973 posts)In all but 5 states, however, women are allowed to breastfeed in public and private places. The mishmash of laws results in a lot of confusing outcomes, with some business owners thinking they have the right to tell women they must cover themselves when they breastfeed.
http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/breastfeeding-state-laws.aspx
Twenty-eight states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands exempt breastfeeding from public indecency laws. (Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.)
dilby
(2,273 posts)45 States allow for Breastfeeding in any Public and Private location. 28 States exempt breastfeeding from public indecency laws, I would assume this counts for all 45 states since it's legal in them they just don't have an additional unneeded law.
pnwmom
(108,973 posts)where business owners and managers inform legally breastfeeding women that they are required to do their breastfeeding under a blanket or other cover.
So it's not really an unneeded law.
Also, there were 5 states where women did not have a legally protected right to breastfeed.
dilby
(2,273 posts)There are another 4 states that you need a license to open carry and they are never issued to civilians. For the original poster to complain that you can open carry but can't breastfeed in the US is just not true.
pnwmom
(108,973 posts)don't allow open carry?
dilby
(2,273 posts)pnwmom
(108,973 posts)of states where breastfeeding is protected, and yet open carry IS legal there.
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)No doubt if the word 'Reagan is a God' was tattoo'd on said breasts, it would be considered a Constitutional free speech right.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)The tattoo would have to have "jesus" on the left and a picture of St. Ronnie of Reagan on the right - both featuring tiny copyright marks and itty-bitty GOP logos....THEN it would be "speech"
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)Nurturing the next generation? CRIMINAL
Carrying loaded instruments of death and destruction where the next generation is out and about? REASONABLE
It's long past time for the masses to say: ENOUGH
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Nipples are dangerous stimulants for male excess. Men are infantile and cannot control their urges. The baby can wait until it is safe.
But guns keep you safe, and belong everywhere.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Response to elehhhhna (Original post)
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Iggo
(47,547 posts)Now you're getting it.