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searching4mysir -> RE: Breastfeeding In Court? (11/19/2011 11:14:13 AM)
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ORIGINAL: xxblushesxx
It's been about four years. But hold on, HM is a professor...
Ok, he said one time a student had an emergency (an absolute emergency is how he put it) and brought her young child (not a baby) to class. But there have been no infants, and he would not have infants in his class, so breastfeeding would not be an issue.
HM, if he teaches in KY, would have no choice BUT to allow it:
Ky. Rev. Stat. ยง 211-755 (2006) permits a mother to breastfeed her baby or express breast milk in any public or private location. Requires that breastfeeding may not be considered an act of public indecency, indecent exposure, sexual conduct, lewd touching or obscenity. Prohibits a municipality from enacting an ordinance that prohibits or restricts breastfeeding in a public or private place. (2006 SB 106)
Here is the specific verbiage (emphasis is mine):
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211.755 Breast-feeding permitted -- Municipal ordinances not to prohibit or
restrict -- Interference prohibited.
(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, a mother may breast-feed her baby
or express breast milk in any location, public or private, where the mother is
otherwise authorized to be. Breast-feeding a child or expressing breast milk as part
of breast-feeding shall not be considered an act of public indecency and shall not be
considered indecent exposure, sexual conduct, lewd touching, or obscenity.
(2) A municipality may not enact an ordinance that prohibits or restricts a mother
breast-feeding a child or expressing breast milk in a public or private location where
the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be. In a municipal ordinance,
indecent exposure, sexual conduct, lewd touching, obscenity, and similar terms do
not include the act of a mother breast-feeding a child in a public or private location
where the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be.
(3) No person shall interfere with a mother breast-feeding her child in any location,
public or private, where the mother is otherwise authorized to be.
Effective: July 12, 2006
History: Created 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 80, sec. 1, effective July 12, 2006.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/krs/211-00/755.pdf
If the mother is enrolled in his class, she has every legal right to breastfeed during his class, AND if he attempts to stop her in any way, HE is breaking the law. Granted, that law may not have been in effect when he was teaching, but it is now.
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