Protest at ABC/Barbara Walters
Jul 11th, 2005 by Lilian
This piece of news is taken from WABA’s website.
`Lactivists’ nursing anger
Walters’ remark on breast-feeding sparks moms’ protest at ABCBy Amy Harmon
New York Times News Service
Published June 7, 2005The calls for a “nurse-in” began on the Internet mere moments after Barbara Walters uttered a negative remark about public breast-feeding on her ABC talk show, “The View.”
Inspired by similar events organized by a growing group of unlikely activists nationwide, the protest brought about 200 women to ABC’s headquarters Monday. “Shame on View,” their signs read. “Babies Were Born to be Breastfed.”
Walters, who had said a few weeks ago on the show that the sight of a woman breast-feeding on an airplane next to her had made her uncomfortable, said through a spokesman that “it was a particular circumstance, and we are surprised that it warrants a protest.”
But the rally at ABC is only the most visible example of a recent wave of “lactivism.” Prodded by mothers tired of being asked to adjourn to a bathroom while nursing in a public space, six states have recently passed laws giving a woman the right to breast-feed wherever she “is otherwise authorized to be.”
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Breastfeeding moms, will you join such a protest if a situation arise in Malaysia? How far are you ready to go to protect the status of breastfeeding mothers?