Cops called on women nursing their kids at pool, so dozens of breastfeeding moms show up to protes

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55. The owner is the City of Mora, MN.

Then there's the Minnesota statutes:

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/2015/cite/145.905

145.905 LOCATION FOR BREAST-FEEDING.

A mother may breast-feed in any location, public or private, where the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be, irrespective of whether the nipple of the mother's breast is uncovered during or incidental to the breast-feeding.

There's nothing about an issue of a private business in this case, and clearly the law says public OR private establishments.

With this being a City-owned facility, though, a discrimination lawsuit is much more likely to be won, even if it's a moral and not financial victory. Otherwise their argument would be the statute merely protects women from being criminally charged for breastfeeding but can be forced into/out of places they have paid admission to and are authorized to to be if they choose to breastfeed, not what the plain law says -- that a mother may breastfeed anywhere the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be.

I've known people, mainly men, who had major issues with breastfeeding grossing them out, but my father didn't have that reaction. He said, after nearly losing us both from a very complicated labor, that when he saw Mom first get to nurse me it was the most beautiful and natural thing in the world to him, it was something he'd never forget a sense of awe about. It did probably prove, in his mind, that we were both okay to see that interaction -- but he didn't say that specifically. Just that he never got the big deal, to him seeing Mom feed me that way was beautiful, totally natural, not gross, and that breasts were made for other reasons than his own admitted enjoyment of them.

Though perhaps being 20 when he saw their function really didn't care about where they were when it was time for a feeding -- Mom hadn't thought to wear nursing pads to the concert they went to that was their first "date night" after I was born, and well, they functioned about the same time I was crying and getting fed pumped milk at home -- made him understand the reality a bit more, too. Babies need to eat and breastfeeding bodies are very in-sync usually with their baby's schedule and needs. And the cues that trigger letdown don't necessarily wait for a great time. Women need to be able to nurse their children on demand.