[Skinny Shooter]

Hey, why do we dis-respect breasts by calling dumb people boobs.


Here is the article about the breast-in yesterday:
And there are updates on the blog links I posted above.

Breast-feeding mothers stage protest
Women and their backers demonstrate against a Berkshire Mall guard's recent decision to tell a nursing mom to use a blanket or stop.

By Holly Herman
Reading Eagle

Lunchtime crowds in the food court weren't the only ones dining out Saturday at the Berkshire Mall.
Just downstairs in the center of the mall, more than 100 mothers were nursing their babies.

“If adults get hungry at the mall, they eat,” said Lindsay J. Turner, 24. “My child needs to eat, and he should be allowed to eat at the mall. Mothers should not be forced to breast-feed children in their homes. The babies need to eat when they get hungry.”

Turner was one of than 300 protesters, some carrying signs saying “I was Breastfed in Public” and “Breast-feeding is not an Option” who staged a “nurse-in” at the Wyomissing mall.

The demonstration was staged in response to an incident Feb. 17 when security guards told Leigh Bellini of Shillington to use a blanket or stop nursing her 7-month-old son.

Bellini, 29, continued to nurse her child while she argued with three guards.

When she was finished, she went home. The following day, she contacted nursing-support groups, which organized the protest.

“I am holding back tears,” Bellini said just before nursing her son, Enzo, seated on the floor of the mall.

“I can't believe how much support I have here,” she said. “I wasn't expecting this at all.”

Mall officials said last week that they do not object to women breast-feeding there but they said public nursing should be done discreetly. They said they will review how to handle such situations.

As the women nursed their babies, shoppers crowded around. Some participants said they attended the event to provide support.

“I saw in the newspaper they were having a demonstration, and I support breast-feeding,” said Richard Hassler, 51, of Womelsdorf. “I think mothers should be allowed to breast-feed when the babies are hungry.”

More than 150 people signed a petition supporting a proposed Pennsylvania law that would protect the right of mothers to breast-feed in public and calling for the mall to avoid interfering with breast-feeding.

Jake Marcus, an attorney for Birth Without Boundaries in Harrisburg who helped organize the protest, said Pennsylvania is one of 14 states that does not have legislation to protect women who breast-feed in public.

Anne Shuman Urban of Wilmington, Del., said she was visiting relatives in Wyomissing when she heard about the protest.

“I feel that there should be a law in Pennsylvania to protect the women who breast-feed,” she said. “I would like to know that when I come home to visit my family I don't have to worry about my child's nutrition.”

Mark D. Lazarony, 27, of Wernersville said he attended the protest to support his wife, Melissa, who is nursing the couple's 21/2-month-old son, Myles.

“It concerns me that we live in a society that allows the stores in the mall to put up scantily clad women but doesn't approve of breast-feeding,” Lazarony said.

Christina M. Waltz, 25, Birdsboro, said she was disturbed when she heard about Bellini's experience.

“I think every mother has a right to breast-feed her child in a public mall,” Waltz said.

Jen Sawyer, 31, of Pennside said many shoppers at the mall are mothers with babies.

“To make a mother feel she has to be locked up in her home is wrong,” said Sawyer, who was nursing her 5-month-old, Makenna. “Everyone promotes breast-feeding, and when you feed your child you should not have to feel that you are doing something wrong.”