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In <misc.legal>, 9 Oct 1996 14:38:45 GMT,
  On "Re: Breastfeeding a felony?!",
   <psg+@pitt.edu (Paul S Galvanek)> wrote:

>The bill in question bans the public demonstration of breast feeding 
>and the public distribution of printed material depicting breast feeding.
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I've read this thread carefully and have found nobody addressing this
aspect of the proposed bill.

IMHO, this will not pass U.S. Constitutional muster.

Even nazis and nambla-oids are not prohibited from passing out printed
material to advertise their cause.  Nor are anti-choice groups
prohibited from distributing grisly pictures.

Nor should they or anyone else be if the 1st Amendment has any meaning
whatsoever.

I believe it was Mr. Justice Frankfurter who wrote that civil
liberties do not mean liberty only for popular views, but mean
liberties for those whose views we dislike, or even despise.

AFAIK the U.S. Supreme Court still upholds free political speech, even
when expressed as written or printed material.
But I haven't read the advance sheets on free speech cases lately.


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