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More bare breasts than usual were bared near capitol hill when dozens of women held a "nurse-in" to petition congress to extend a mother's rights the workplace.

The demostration was held to ask congress to extend the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act to state that women could no longer be fired for nursing or pumping on their workbreak.

The legislation has failed twice before but Maloney is optimistic that she can gain the votes needed.

"It's the most beautiful and natural thing in the world."
"Yeah, but there's a baby sucking on it."

I can't believe I just quoted "Friends".

Anyway, why are they bringing their infant children to the office with them? Am I missing something?

i don't know....where do they keep them when they're spose to be working....in a little cage on their desk?

Yeah, I dont think the kids should even be in the workplace.

Now that you mention it, what's that woman even doing out of the kitchen?

When my sister had to pump at work, she had to do it in a dark utility closet. She would make me come and visit her because she was eating lunch in a smelly dank closet by herself.

its not about bringing the infants to the workplace - its about not getting grief if you need to pump while at work - pumping is very time consuming and has to be done when let down occurs - i ran into this problem while nursing my son - thankfully i had a job that gave me a 2 hour break during the day and i had ample time to take care of business, most women get a 30 min lunch break and cant eat thier lunch and pump - i hope the legislation passes this time!

Because maternity leave is only so long, and not everybody wants to leave their nursing child with a day care or nanny. Was that really that hard to figure out?

Why shoudl businesses be forced to accomadate someone who has voluntarily brought a new responsibility into their lives? Having a baby is not like haivng a medical condition, it's a choice. Why make someone else accomadate your lifestyle choice?

Then maybe people ought to hold off on having children a couple years until they can afford to take the time needed to properly care for it rather than expecting their workplace to carry the burden for them?

Approx. 50% of the population is able to make the choice at some point in their lives, and frankly it does lead to a medical condition. By your logic, you could argue that employers should be able to fire employees who eat unhealthy food or smoke because they've made a choice that will predispose them to heart problems or lung cancer.

[Edited on May 06, 2005 by adjunct]

So, you're saying child-rearing is only for people who can afford to have a single-income family? This is an incredible burden on the working poor.

This might be a silly question, but if pumping takes so long, why not do it when you get home from work instead of taking a long ass break that disrupts the work day?

Let me get this straight.

Hundreds of women beared their breastsessesses in public for a cause......AND NOBODY GOT ANY PICS?!?!?!?!

If you don't pump at certain times your breasts begin to hurt and there is leaking involved.
Also it can lead to mastosis: which is, I understand, the clotting and possibly curdling of the milk. Which is painful and may lead to the mother losing her milk.

[Edited on May 06, 2005 by LyloniJade]

That's really sad but I have to confess that for some reason it made me laugh...perhaps I need help.

No, you don't need help, I laughed and made fun of her all of the time. But, it really did suck(no pun intended) she suffered from Post partom depression. The fact that she had to pump in a shitty little dungen kinda pushed her over the looney edge...

They wouldn't be the working poor if they held off on kids for a couple years. They'd be the working middle class, they'd save some money, and be able to care for their children without forcing the burden to others. Childbirth isn't a product of bad luck or bad genes or air pollution or whatnot, it's a choice and people seem to think that they HAVE to pop one out as soon as they can, but don't come crying to me when you realize you can't afford it.

I worked with a woman who was in a similar situation. Management's solution? Turn the large janitor's closet (with no windows) into her office, so she could shut the door for privacy anytime. The rest of the staff, all women, were not amused.

I don't ask for an extra hour and a half so I can go out and exercise to counteract my smoking/unhealthy food habit. And I certainly expect someone who is leading an unhealthy lifestyle to have to pay higher insurance rates. Just like unsafe drivers pay more car insurance and people with bad credit can't borrow as much.

Putting aside your utterly galling misogyny and your utter lack of experience in the child-rearing department, I don't think anybody actually has come crying to you. Your argument assumes that staying employed is a ticket to the middle class, an assumption that the economy of the past 30 years has put the lie to.

But I'll tell you what: don't let women pump at work, and when you're dealing with prostate cancer in your later years, you don't bring a pillow to sit on. Deal?

Did I mention the first few days she had to sit on an upside down bucket. She bitched until she could get a chair.

If that would have been me I would have went into the managers office yelling "fuck your bucket"

"sucking on my titties for equal rights
Callin me, all the time like blondie
Check out my picket sign"

Dude, I don't care, just so long as I'm not the one picking up on their slack.

Having childen is not a disability, it's a choice. Cut the mother's milk with formula, if you have to.

[Edited on May 06, 2005 by EatGreat]