National Domestic Violence Awareness Project

profeminist:

“Women are constantly criticized and shamed for breastfeeding in public — but they can now officially say that it is completely legal across the United States.

For years, there were just two states — Utah and Idaho — that did not have laws in place to protect nursing mothers who need to breastfeed in public. But with new legislation, both states are now on board.

The bill passed in Utah with some resistance — the legislation at first stated that “A woman may breastfeed in any place of public accommodation … irrespective of whether the woman’s breast is uncovered during or incidental to the breast-feeding,” in line with the rest of the country.

But, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, Republican Representative Curt Webb thought the wording would lead to immodesty.”

Read the full piece here

BREASTFEEDING NOT LEGAL THROUGHOUT U.S. UNTIL 2000 F’ING 18?!?!?

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER, BUT JFC THIS COUNTRY HATES WOMEN

TO ALL THE HANDMAID’S TALE / WAR ON WOMEN REPUBLICANS