Post by Michele Zipp
When a breastfeeding mom is discriminated against, there are nurse-ins or petitions to end the injustices we face. Sometimes we make enough noise to make a change, but more needs to be done. Texas House of Representative member Jessica Farrar wants change, too. She introduced HB 1706, a bill that would essentially make it a crime if a person harasses a woman breastfeeding in public. It is already law in Texas that a mother has the right to breastfeed her child in any location she is authorized to be. But yet there are still stories in the state of a nursing mom kicked out of a women's gym to spare children and another told to stop breastfeeding at a Houston Target. And sadly, a Texas judge recently ruled that there was no discrimination against a mom who was fired for asking for a place at work to pump. Something BIG has to happen in Texas for breastfeeding moms to get the respect they deserve and Farrar is working to make that happen.![]()
When a breastfeeding mom is discriminated against, there are nurse-ins or petitions to end the injustices we face. Sometimes we make enough noise to make a change, but more needs to be done. Texas House of Representative member Jessica Farrar wants change, too. She introduced HB 1706, a bill that would essentially make it a crime if a person harasses a woman breastfeeding in public. It is already law in Texas that a mother has the right to breastfeed her child in any location she is authorized to be. But yet there are still stories in the state of a nursing mom kicked out of a women's gym to spare children and another told to stop breastfeeding at a Houston Target. And sadly, a Texas judge recently ruled that there was no discrimination against a mom who was fired for asking for a place at work to pump. Something BIG has to happen in Texas for breastfeeding moms to get the respect they deserve and Farrar is working to make that happen.