In the heart of the conservative south, laws protecting a women's right to breastfeed are making headway. Yesterday a measure that allows women the right to breastfeed wherever they have the right to be has passed the South Carolina senate, after being approved in the state's house of representatives in February.  The bill also exempts breast-feeding from indecent exposure laws, and although South Carolina's governor has not committed to signing the bill into law, his spokesperson has stated that the governor "sees nothing wrong with the bill so far, but he wants to review it further when it hits his desk." 

 The bill was sponsored by a Republican representative, and inspired by an incident Melissa Summers write about back in February, when a woman was ordered to stop breastfeeding her daughter in a Victoria's Secret dressing room. South Carolina ranks near the bottom in states where mothers breastfeed their babies, and hopefully this law will encourage a new perspective on breastfeeding there. Thirty-nine states have already passed laws related to breast-feeding. Kansas became No. 32 last month when Governor Kathleen Sebelius signed the bill. Bills are awaiting governors' signatures in Kentucky and Mississippi.