Breast-feeding mothers will be exempt from local anti-nudity laws if the Wichita City Council accepts a proposed change to the law at its meeting Tuesday.
The proposal would bring Wichita's obscenity laws in line with a new state law that protects a woman's right to breast-feed "in any place she has the right to be."
According to the current city law, display of the female breast -- specifically the center of the breast -- is considered nudity, and, consequently, off-limits in public. Violations are punishable by a $2,500 fine and a year in jail.
The proposed change would add "a mother breast-feeding her child" as an exemption.
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