Breastfeeding Law: Pennsylvania
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Freedom to Breastfeed Act.
Section 2. Declaration of policy.
The General Assembly finds that breastfeeding...
Breastfeeding Law: Lactation and the Law Revisited
In late 2010, young mother Anna (not her real name) was nursing her daughter in the toddler area of a public pool in the...
Breastfeeding Law: Texas
Sec. 165.002. RIGHT TO BREAST-FEED. A mother is entitled to breast-feed her baby in any location in which the mother is authorized to be.
Added...
Breastfeeding Law: Missouri
191.918. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a mother may, with discretion, breast-feed her child or express breast milk in...
Breastfeeding Law: Wisconsin
SECTION 1. 253.16 of the statutes is created to read:
253.16 Right to breast−feed. A mother may breast−feed her child in any public or private...
Breastfeeding Law: Lactation and The Law
By Jake Marcus, J.D.
Most women who breastfeed their children will, at some time or other, find it necessary to nurse their children outside of...
Breastfeeding Law: Hawaii
BREASTFEEDING IN PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
§489-21 Discriminatory practices; breastfeeding. It is a discriminatory practice to deny, or attempt to deny, the full and equal enjoyment...
Breastfeeding Law: West Virginia
§16-1-19. Child’s right to nurse; the location where permitted;
right protected.
(a) The Legislature finds that breastfeeding is an important, basic act of nurturing that is...
Breastfeeding Law: District of Columbia
§ 2-1402.82. Rights of breastfeeding mothers.
(b) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice to deny a woman any right provided under this section.
(c) (1)...
Breastfeeding Law: Rhode Island
§ 23-13.5-1 Breastfeeding in public places. – A woman may feed her child by bottle or breast in any place open to the public.
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