Group says mothers have the right to breast-feed in public (TaiwanHeadlines)

More than a dozen mothers breast-fed their babies outside the Taipei Story House on Sunday to send a message to the gallery, as well as society, that mothers should be allowed to breast-feed their babies wherever they want, be it in public or in the workplace.

The women were part of a group of 30 mothers gathered by the Taiwan Breastfeeding Association for a picnic-like event on the plaza between the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and the Taipei Story House, a Tudor-style brick resort house built by a tea merchant in 1914 that now functions as a gallery and restaurant.

The group chose the location after the restaurant kicked out five mothers who were breastfeeding on the premises last month in the name of "maintaining the place's decency and professionalism."


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