Their rallying cry for breast-feeding rights: It's all about the babies
Among regular citizens who dig in their heels to lobby the state Legislature, members of the South Carolina Breastfeeding Action Committee are a different breed. They don't have a beef about property taxes, they're not especially concerned about where the Confederate flag flies and although they like open spaces where their kids can run and play, they're not there to fight for environmental conservation.
This is just about the babies.
It started with just one baby, a hungry, howling 2-month-old girl. In a lingerie store. And a mom who got mad when the store refused to allow her use of a dressing room to nurse the baby.
Then, there were dozens of other moms, feeding their babies in protest under the store's pink and white awnings. A movement was born, a bill was authored, suggesting that women have a right to breast-feed in public whenever they need to, and now, it's partway to becoming a law in the Palmetto State.
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