Sunday, July 16, 2006

Perfect food difficult for public to swallow (Independent Record)

Breast-feeding. That one single word has the power to spark heated public debate.

In 2004, an Iowa City woman was kicked out of a restaurant because she was nursing her baby. The owner, and then the owner’s wife, told her she was upsetting other customers and asked her to feed her baby in the restroom. She refused, so she and her family were then asked to leave.

As a nursing mother, I’d like to ask a question: Why couldn’t those customers who were so offended in that restaurant have turned their heads to look in a different direction?



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