City Bans Breast-Feeding Children Older Than 2 in Public

Breastfeeding involved FEEDING A CHILD. Do you eat in public? What if you had to go home every time you wanted something to eat? That would be wrong, right?

You're comparing a bowel movement to eating? Not even going to go there, that's way to sick and twisted for me. If breastfeeding is being outlawed, so should shirtless men. It's truly disturbing to see a man with hairy boobs that are as big and droopy as any breastfeeding momma with a gut that looks like he's housing triplets, strutting his sweaty goods down the street. Bleh. When I breastfeed, between my shirt and my daughter's head, you see as much if not skin than you do with a bikini. Sorry but I'm not going to stress out my child or hide her away because you're uncomfortable with breasts were created for.

@ Linda: I didn't say anything about urinating. I am certainly no moron. I am a huge supporter of a woman's right to nurse her baby, publicly, privately, however she and the baby is most comfortable. It is our right, both through nature and through state legislature.

SARAH:
Apparently the public majority doesn't think it is your right to do it in public. Please respect that, as most breastfeeding woman already do. "Respect" for others would be the key word.

@ Hello: You will forgive me if the health and well being of my child comes second to your misguided moral opposition. No one is forcing you to look.

Sarah you sound like a real empty-headed nut. A real beaut. Freedom doesn't mean each person can do as they please because their personal opinion dictates right and wrong. It's about what society deems appropriate for the comfort of ALL. That's the freedom people like I have fought for in wars. It's not all about YOU and your arrogant self-absorption.

If the health and well-being of your kid is of primary importance verde84, then go the hell home and take care of it, and stop trying to use it as an excuse that you have to take out your breasts in public or your kid's health will be jeopordized. Don't even START with me. What do you take us for??? You are a silly twit if ever I read the ignorant ramblings of one.

What you all fail to realize is that State Laws support a woman's right to nurse in public. In all all likelihood this will be overturned because it is contradicting GA State laws. As far as insulting me personally I'm sorry as adults you can't have a healthy and intelligent debate. I don't know of any mother who doesnt nurse in public using some discretion, but the point is in a pinch when a baby needs to eat he or she needs to eat. It's that simple. If it makes you uncomfortable-don't look. But it is this sort of stigma that is perpetuating the disintegrating health of our country.

Sverde, no one was hurling insults -- they were just attempting to lighten you with facts. You don't like it, so you don't want to hear it, but that's tough. All the stupidity you've written flies in the face with what most people on this board feel. Get over it. It doesn't matter how many times you post your nonsense. You can't expect conditioning about how people feel about something to suddenly change or be ignored just because you think it should. You're sort of dim when it comes to understanding the issue.

Thank you for a decent male perspective! I have to wonder if there isn't some kind of lobby for the formula manufacturers that gets these laws passed and viral marketing going on with these kinds of laws and AP news stories on the web. (I mean, who really really gets icked out at this, or are they just repeating that it is icky because that's what everyone else says--major marketing ploy there, and a common tool when selling something for positive or negative "airtime".) There are specific laws to prevent rumor mongering (which formula companies rampantly did back when it was first introduced as "superior to breastmilk" to get nervous moms to stop nursing and instead mix up some foul smelling concoction with water to pad the pockets of a greedy company) here in the US now, but it doesn't stop the formula companies now hitting up China and the Middle East trying to sway the public there into believing that formula is better than breastmilk so they can make $$$ off a new customer base and start a generational shift to formula. Now that so many Americans see breastfeeding as gross and icky, they'll train their young children to feel the same way and formula companies laugh all the way to the bank. They are sowing those negative seeds internationally now...they've taken root here already.

Decorum, Richard, decorum. Your Mother is arranging your furniture or hanging pictures while breastfeeding. Clumsy, dangerous and not good for baby.

It's not all about YOU, Richard.

Who ever said it would be fair?

Democracy seems to be that people don't want to have to see this in public. Why do you opposers want to force us to see it?

Go take care of this in private and respect the rights of the masses, please.