Americans may be more comfortable with seeing women breast-feeding, but in Puritan Massachusetts, moms can still be cuffed for nursing in public.
While laws proposed to protect nursing mothers have been stalled at the State House, a nationwide survey released today found more people endorse breast-feeding and are comfortable with moms nursing in public than they were a year ago.
But you'd better beware in the Bay State.
Massachusetts isn't among the 30 states that allow women to breast-feed in any public or private locations or the 15 states that exempt breast-feeding from public indecency laws.
In fact, women who breast-feed in public in Massachusetts can be charged with indecent exposure, a misdemeanor, or lewd and lascivious conduct, a felony.
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