Nursing Mothers
* Re “Panel Rejects Bill Establishing Right to Breast-Feed in Public,” Sacramento File, March 31:
Breast-feeding reduces children’s susceptibility to ear infections, colds, throat and tonsil infections, intestinal infections, asthma and ulcerative colitis. Assemblyman Bill Morrow (R-Oceanside), however, voted against a bill that would make it easier for women to nurse, positing the entirely unfounded--and to nursing mothers, downright laughable--argument that women would use the law as an opportunity to remove their shirts in public. Let me take a wild guess that when Morrow isn’t busy making it more difficult for women to nurture their babies, he portrays himself as pro-family.
SUSAN GOODKIN
Ventura
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