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Re: Breastfeeding a felony?!

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From: Alleycat
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 00:00
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In article <53gddl$q1c@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>, psg+@pitt.edu (Paul S Galvanek) says:
>
>In article <53f6h2$rij@clarknet.clark.net>,
>J. Rachael Hamlet or Duncan Cooper <activist@clark.net> wrote:
>>
>>I see no countervailing state interest served here by prohibiting 
>>breastfeeding in public, and the proposed law is almost certainly
>>unconstitutional for that reason.  If you want to know more about breastfeeding
>>as a political and public health issue, visit my web page.
> 
>And once again for those who simply want to avoid the issue or can't understand
>it, no one has proposed banning breast feeding.
>
>The bill in question bans the public demonstration of breast feeding and the
>public distribution of printed material depicting breast feeding.  It is
>addressing a specific type of activity that is being engaged in by a group
>of people who are trying to force their political views on other, including
>small children, not at mothers merely trying to feed their children.
>
>Paul S. Galvanek
>
Sounds like a very good Bill to me, and one that would certainly be 
in the interest of the "general" public.  Have to give the politicians
credit for SOME things, now and then. -- Alleycat
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From: opdi@netshop.net (Alleycat)
Subject: Re: Breastfeeding a felony?!
Date: 1996/10/12
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