Saturday, September 17, 2005

Instructor who let woman breast-feed claims prejudice (BostonHerald.com)

A driver retraining instructor who veered from the rule book to let a student breast-feed her baby claims in a lawsuit that the National Safety Council is punishing him by depriving him of business.

``It just seems unfortunate that there's this kind of unaccommodating attitude about what seems to be a pretty natural and pretty reasonable thing,'' attorney Paul Merry said on behalf of David Seely, 50, of Westminster. Seely's job with the nonprofit organization is to correct the attitudes of bad drivers on their last leg with the law.

Public breast feeding is not a protected right in Massachusetts, though a bill pending in the Legislature would change that.

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