Kentucky Votes Forum

Introduced in the Senate on January 20, 2006, to permit a mother to breastfeed her baby or express breast milk in any location, public or private. The bill would require that breastfeeding may not be considered an act of public indecency, indecent exposure, sexual conduct, lewd touching, or obscenity. The bill would prohibit a municipality from enacting an ordinance that prohibits or restricts breastfeeding in a public or private location. The bill would exclude breastfeeding from the definition of indecent exposure, sexual conduct, lewd touching, obscenity, and similar terms. The bill would prohibit interference with a mother breastfeeding her child in any public or private location

The vote was 38 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 not voting

(Senate Roll Call 0 at Senate Journal 0)

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It is astounding that such measures are even required. But since they are... by all means, pass the law. I will be happy to make referrals to good professional therapists for any person who erroneously classifies Nature's nurture as a social blight or a sexual provocation. Or, they might take the more blunt advice of "grow up, already!"

First of all, I am a woman. Sure it's a natural thing, so is urinating, but I'm not going to pull my pants down in the middle of Walmart when I have to go. Sex is natural...You don't want to see that do you? I nor my family should have to be exposed to someone's breast while I'm in a restaurant, church, school, etc. Do you honestly think that if your child's teacher is standing up at the bulletin board teaching while breast feeding, or sitting at her desk expressing her milk that the students are paying attention to the lesson or looking at her breast? I do not want my child exposed to someone's private parts! Some women can do this discreety, but most won't. Worked for 2 businesses before, this happened, both women took their tops off! It hurt both businesses and customers walked out. Sorry, there's a place for everything, but in public it's not the best idea. If polled, guaranteed most people would feel the same as me. Like I said, what's next?

Since our society (probably the only one in the world) feels that breasts are sexual and nothing else-- we have the lowest breastfeeding rates on Earth. That's a pity since breastfeeding is clearly the very best for our mothers and children. It's unfortunate that people who oppose this legislation make up outlandish stories about women pulling their shirts off. As a breastfeeding mother who knows thousands of women who do or have breastfed, some of them militant, I've never known one of them to pull their shirt off. It's such a rare occurrence, it's quite unlikely that a single person would see it twice in one lifetime!

Well said! Women absolutely have the right to breast feed in public!