Friday, February 03, 2006

Mothers urge declaration (The Topeka Capitol-Journal)

The act earning Aggie Nickelson a public rebuke seems innocuous enough.

She went to the restroom of a restaurant to nurse her infant son.

"A woman walked in and told me she was very offended and that in the state of Kansas it was illegal," the Hutchinson woman said Thursday during a Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee hearing. "She was going to call the police and have me arrested."

Her story was similar to that of Amy Swan, of Lawrence. She was accosted by a man while nursing her daughter in the nursery at a Lawrence health club.

"My experience at the health club was so degrading and humiliating," Swan said.



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