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I'm curious if there's a poll out there that correlates people being against breastfeeding in public and their stance on abortion.
Oh, please! Let's keep this to breastfeeding. One controversy at a time. I know, breastfeeding isn't controversial to me, but it seems to be for many here.
Oh, please! Let's keep this to breastfeeding. One controversy at a time. I know, breastfeeding isn't controversial to me, but it seems to be for many here.
Honestly, I think both are similar issues in theory - both are legal and both have people trying to get women to stop doing them. It is always about a woman's behavior that people don't think is moral or good or becoming of a woman.
In both cases people need to mind their own business and quit trying to control other people.
If anyone is opposed to breast feeding anywhere they have issues where they equate it with something dirty or sexual when in fact it's been happening for millennia.
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Several of your links are from the UK. In any event, banning kids is of dubious legality. https://blogs.findlaw.com/free_enter...-it-legal.html And this isn't really an issue about allowing a kid into a restaurant. Once the business, be it a restaurant or a public swimming pool, has admitted the baby, all 50 states require that the mom be allowed to breast feed and 30 states including S. Carolina where this incident happened exempt bf women from public exposure laws.
Restaurants in Europe/UK and the US can ba children and there are numereous examples.
In terms of the link you provide, it just backs up the assertion that children can be banned although it must be children as a whole and it must not relate to ethnicity or other such factors.
Licensed premises which serve alcohol have even greater flexibility in relation to banning those under 18.
In terms of cafes and family themes restaurants no one tends to mind babies or children, however more upmarket restaurants that operate at night are different, as they do not cater for children. There is however plenty of choice for women with children among the family themed sector.
The same is true of sports clubs, which may include swimming pools but mat have an adults only policy or may even be male members only.
Breastfeeding IN a public pool is not cool. It involves bodily fluids in a shared pool of water that people are swimming in, ladies. Step out of the pool and whip them boobs out but not IN the pool, please? Is that really too much to ask?
That logic does not hold ground in my opinion.
Also, for the sake of argument. Let us say that the mom breastfed in the car and then went to the swimming pool. Who is to say the her breast do not leak any milk in the water? I believe that is very possible.
How about when people spit while in the pool. Many do that. Well, can you assure me that many people do not urinate in while in the pool?
How about someone gets in the swimming pool and did not wipe his or her anus totally clean after going to restroom.
I can go on and on. So a few drops of milk are not any worst than some of the things I listed above.
That is why swimming pools have chlorine to kill most potentially harmful fluids. The human body does have anti bodies to protect itself from most situation in the swimming pool.
Some of the aversion is mostly that people do not like breastfeeding in public. There have been so many out there where people simply do not like to see breastfeeding and come up with other reasons to have it prohibited.
You have a great day.
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