Current mood:

pissed off

Tit-Nazis invade Wisconsin
Well, I see breeder-pleasers and hardcore-types alike have contributed to shitting up my thread. Good going missing the real issue: the entitlement of one particular niche group of people over everyone else. Every single thread about breast-feeding turns into a hatefest on both sides on this group, and it speaks very little for what we ought to be more concerned about (in this case, moomies receiving extra-special rights over all men, bottle-feeders, CFers, and women who just want to let it all hang out). It's too late to clarify the point of my post, but then it still likely wouldn't have mattered when some people just have to get the last word in. Like myself.

I apologize in advance if I've missed a post (after checking over the past several days) where this has already been discussed:

A bill that would protect breastfeeding women from harassment was introduced into the state Senate Wednesday at the Capitol.

State Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison, authored the bill that would make it illegal for people to discriminate against women who breastfeed in public.

“Basically it gives a statutory right for a woman to breastfeed her child in any public or private place where she is able to be,” Risser said. “Some people still are upset at breastfeeding in public and some women have been harassed by others, so we hope this bill would reduce that.”

The Orlando-based radio program the Phillips Phile brought this to my attention. If this bill is passed, someone who "harasses" (whatever that is) a breastfeeding mother in public could be ticketed with fines possibly in the hundreds of dollars. I wonder if this accounts for the attachment parent who publicly feels she has the right to breastfeed her four-year-old? Does this mean a breastfeeding mother could just take her shirt clean off in public, floppy-titted and entitled, and not be subject to any other decency laws whatsoever?

Here's another point of interest, unrelated but in the same story:

In another legislative act Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary, Corrections and Privacy Committee approved a bill that would protect doctors from lawsuits brought by the parents of disabled children who claim the doctors did not adequately identify possible birth defects in their kids. Under the bill, parents would not be able to sue doctors because they felt they were prevented from obtaining abortions due to the doctors’ failure to disclose the abnormalities. (bold my own)