S.C. hands new mothers protection for breast-feeding
New mothers in South Carolina will now find among their packet of coupons and how-to information a small laminated card that explains the state's new law on breast-feeding in public.The Department of Health and Environmental Control paid for about 50,000 cards and sent them out to the state's hospitals.
The new law, which exempts breast-feeding mothers from indecent exposure laws, was spurred by the experience of a woman who said she was asked to feed her newborn daughter in a public restroom rather than nurse in a dressing room at Victoria's Secret in Mount Pleasant.
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