Friday, September 09, 2005

The need to breast-feed

A new state law that goes into effect next Friday means Ohio mothers won't feel compelled to breast-feed their babies in bathroom stalls at malls, restaurants and other "places of public accommodation."

On June 14, Ohio became the 35th state to enact a law allowing women to breast-feed in public, according to the LaLeche League, an organization that advocates breast-feeding. Kentucky has no such legislation in place.

But many mothers already were nursing their babies wherever they happened to be when the little one got hungry - law, or no law.



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