COMMITTEE PASSES BILL ON PUBLIC BREAST-FEEDING.Byline: Scripps-McClatchy Western Service California mothers confused about their right to breast-feed breast-feed v. To feed a baby mother's milk from the breast; suckle. in public places - and hassled when they do - might soon have an assertive response for waiters, store clerks or security guards who confront them: Back off, the law's on my side. Court decisions have established that right, but the word hasn't gotten out. Assemblyman Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. , D-Los Angeles, thinks it will help promote breast-feeding breast-feeding /breast-feed·ing/ (brest´fed?ing) nursing; the feeding of an infant at the mother's breast. by putting a law expressly on the books, and the Assembly Judiciary Committee Judiciary Committee may refer to:
The bill says simply that a woman may breast-feed her infant in any place where she would otherwise be allowed to be - in other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently , any public place where minors are permitted. Villaraigosa said the bill and resulting publicity will also help promote breast-feeding, which will yield public health benefits and medical cost savings to the state. Bruce Smith, a public health doctor from San Bernardino County, testified that an array of medical studies has shown that mother's milk is ``a potent cocktail of hormones and immunizations.'' |
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