Sometimes even the most basic things can cause a ruckus.
When Chandler recently considered making breast-feeding in public a criminal offense, people across the continent blasted the City Council with letters and e-mails.
The council backed off the criminal-trespass idea and appointed the Chandler Breast-feeding Task Force to make a recommendation, but itwas unable to reach a decision on where in the world women could breast-feed.
In one meeting, the group narrowly voted against a proposal that would have made nursing in public places a right but would have allowed private businesses to disallow it.
In another, the group still was unable to come up with a majority vote on any recommendation to the Chandler City Council. Instead, the task force is forwarding suggested versions of an ordinance change to the council.
The suggestions vary in detail, but all hover around the idea that our city should tolerate, if not actually embrace, breast-feeding.
Complicating things is that Arizona is one of only a few states that has not exempted breast-feeding from the indecent exposure law. A woman nursing in public could be arrested.
That's just wrong.
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