Breastfeeding Mom Asked To Leave Chain Restaurant - Yes Folks, REAL Story from today

[matcom]

crossposted in GD if you want to follow all the REAL action :D

BONUS! Mother's last name IS the name of a chain restaurant! :rofl:

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BOCA RATON, Fla. - A new mom is at the center of controversy after she was asked to leave a Houston's restaurant for breast-feeding her infant.

"I didn't know what my rights were," Bertucci said.

She was breast-feeding her infant son during a family dinner at Houston's when management asked her to leave.

"I wanted to cry," Bertucci said. "I wanted to crawl under the table like I did something wrong, but I didn't do anything wrong."

Bertucci said she finished feeding her son in her car and came back inside the restaurant.

"I'm humiliated," she said. "I really am. I am in shock."

After consulting a family attorney, Bertucci said she found out that the Houston's restaurant violated her rights.

"I want all women to be aware of it," she said. "We do have rights and there is nothing wrong with nursing your baby in public."

According to a Florida law, women have an unconditional right to breast-feed anywhere, public or private, covered or uncovered.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18317218/

[ruiner4u]

1. Oh oh oh oh !!!

Do I want to play devils advocate? Bwahahahha!...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear matcom!

I just left my pithy comments, and a K&R, in your thread...

That sort of incident just makes my blood boil...:nuke:

[Writer]

3. My name is Wanda Olivegarden

Don't @#$% with me!

[SteppingRazor]

4. Thank God. I mean, some of us just don't want to see that while we're eating.

:popcorn:

[Deja Q]

8. Yeah, most people wait to get home to pop in the porno tape where the same thing happens!

:rofl:

[Radical Activist]

5. Was it Olive Garden?

I didn't see the article say what restaurant it was. Please God let it be Olive Garden!

[Zomby Woof]

6. OMG!!! CALL CONGRESS RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!11

:popcorn:

[Deja Q]

7. She's humiliated? Most of the customers probably felt the same way!

:wow:

And what if it was a grown man instead of a baby? :evilgrin:

Why not make a 'breastfeeder' section like how Perkins makes a smokers'-only section? You know, where it's walled off with a door to get in, where there's better ventilation, and where there's windows for everybody to look out of (or in to!!)? :D Or maybe not...

[LostinVA]

9. God, I wish her last name was Olivegarten

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. If we accept this deplorable and evil behavior, the next step is allowing public defecation

When will you LIEbruls figure this out?

Do you really want it to be mandatory for gay child care providers to defecate publicly on your babies?

[Midlodemocrat]

11. Well, you men have essentially perfected public urination

:eyes:

[petronius]

13. Two weeks ago I'd have disagreed with you

However, now that my frat guy neighbors have perfected the 'crouch in the 2nd story window and pee into the parking lot' move, I agree that there are no new frontiers in public urination...

[matcom]

14. fucking jealousy is pathetic

bow down before my 'whipping-out' prowess :P

[zanne]

12. Why aren't we like the people in a National Geographic?

Not all societies see women's breasts as something sexual. I'll never understand why we do.