CNN report on "Lactivists" with Jeanne Moos

CNN report that ran numerous time the week of June 6, 2005, after the NYC Nurse-In at ABC Headquarters to protest negative breastfeeding comments made on "The View" TV show by Barbara Walters and other hosts.

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News & Politics

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• Nurse-In
• lactivist
• lactivism
• breastfeeding
• babies
• mothers
• protest
• The
• View
• Barbara
• Walters
• Starbucks
• NYC

[usaf317]

our economy is in the toilet and this is what people are worried about? breast feeding....no wonder we are in trouble.

[darkprince56]

even badgers lactate...moral of the story: you're not special because you can breastfeed. Lactards.

[zapjaste]

OMG I have that same Boppy slipcover at 42 seconds in. :)

[islandmamma]

breast milk actually KILLS germs. An eye infection can be healed by breastmilk.

[Isncee]

Guess what, whenever you're eating, your food is FULL of bodily fluids and body parts. Most of them don't even come from your own SPECIES, but from even less hygenic animals. How is someone drinking a cowsmilk latte going to whine about the biohazard of the mere PRESENCE of human milk? Besides, even if breastmilk were a "biohazard" (lol) it's still only an issue if you're afraid you're going to come into contact with it. And, imaginative as I am, I can't begin to see how that'd happen.

[spitzbully]

Its unsanitary because its excreting bodily fluids like the same thing as urine. This is a biohazard that contains contamination to eating food supplys which we could have a major class action lawsuit on our hands if customers get food poisoning. Yes people do in fact get queezy at this horrific sight which in fact does violate and undermine the "No shoes, no shirt, no service: policys

[Isncee]

Unsanitary? How? You afraid the milk is gonna spray out everywhere or something? This claim about unsanitariness is completely bizarre to me.

There's sort of a big difference with urinating. Urinating is unsanitary and needs to happen in the bathroom cause when you piss, you know, a bunch of piss comes out. When you shit, there's a big unsanitary turd to worry about. That's why they happen in the bathroom.

Speaking of unsanitary, would you like to eat in the bathroom?

[spitzbully]

Thats what bathrooms are for, nursing your kid in a public venue is unsanitary and does slow down business. Breastfeeding is a bodily function like urinating that nobody wants to see. Its like if this is an issue, how long will it be till we pass legislation to go and urinate in public or perhaps excercise our rights to masturbate?

[spitzbully]

i think anyone who would pull a stunt like this doesnt deserve to have kids. Why cant people understand that this is public indecent exposure?

[spitzbully]

Barbara Walters is right, this kind of thing can be uncompfortable for the mother herself thats nursing and the man who is sitting right next to the nursing mother. These are a bunch of selfish hippy bored housewives who have nothing better to do with their time by putting their child up for public display. This truely discredits all of those self righteous nursing moms