Teenage girls wear skimpy tops with plunging necklines. Restaurant chains devoted to ogling waitresses' chests are packed with customers. Soon, nursing women in Alabama will have the right to feed their babies in public without fear of reproach.
Rep. Laura Hall said at first she didn't think women needed a law to protect such a basic part of life. But the Huntsville Democrat learned of a woman in her district who was hassled at a children's museum by staff who asked her to leave her toddler and go into a bathroom to feed her infant.
"It just did not sit well with me," Hall said.
Last week, the Alabama Legislature passed a bill sponsored by Hall that allows a woman to breast-feed in public or private any place she has a right to be. Gov. Bob Riley plans to sign the bill into law, to take effect July 1, according to a spokesman. More than 38 states already have similar laws.
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