Sunday, June 12, 2005

News Review From Harvard Medical School -- Breastfeeding Women Protest

About 200 women nursed their babies outside ABC headquarters in New York City June 6 to protest a remark made by Barbara Walters on her talk show, "The View," The New York Times reported June 7. Walters commented that she felt uncomfortable sitting next to a woman breastfeeding on an airplane. The protest was one of several recently by activists supporting public nursing, including a "nurse-in" at the U.S. Capitol in May to support legislation that would provide legal protection for women to pump breast milk or breastfeed in the workplace.



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