Quote:A New Hampshire state House debate about public breastfeeding is getting ugly, following a legislative proposal that would make it a misdemeanor to expose nipples while in public.

State Rep. Amanda Bouldin, a Democrat, isn't happy about the idea and expressed her opposition on Facebook. Bouldin called for the bill's sponsor, State Rep. Josh Moore, to kill it or at least exempt new mothers who are breastfeeding.

"The very least you could do," Bouldin wrote, "is protect a mother's right to FEED her child."

The bill does exempt breastfeeding mothers, she later acknowledged to CNN, but she didn't know at the time of the Facebook post.

The post prompted a comment from Rep. Moore -- later deleted -- in which he wrote, "If it's a woman's natural inclination to pull her nipple out in public and you support that, than you should have no problem with a mans inclantion [sic] to stare at it and grab it. After all... It's ALL relative and natural, right?"

Another colleague, State Rep. Al Baldasaro, Republican, also commented the post: "No disrespect, but your nipple would be the last one I would want to see ... You want to turn our family beach's into a pervert show."

Bouldin said she wasn't shocked by her colleagues' comments because she often posts to Facebook to start a discussion about bills she doesn't approve of.

Bouldin said she still doesn't support the bill, even with the breastfeeding exemption. The representatives pushing the measure are "chasing an imaginary threat," she said. Public nudity just isn't a pressing public policy matter in New Hampshire, she said.

"I never offered to show anyone my nipples, so I'm not sure why (Baldasaro) said that," she told CNN. "What is worse is that I have no desire to be nude in public ... I'm not trying to villainize anyone."

CNN has reached out to Moore and Baldasaro for comment, but they have not yet responded.

(01-01-2016, 03:19 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: on breast feeding in general:
If these women just did the best they could and attempted to hide the breast feeding as much as possible.   If they just tried this then I can't see why there would be a problem.   A business should be able to remove you if they desire.

(01-01-2016, 07:18 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Personally, I am offended by Rep. Moore's commentary that paints men as sex-crazed beings incapable of controlling themselves.

(01-01-2016, 07:39 PM)GMDino Wrote: So, in general, you think women just plop them out and hang them them there with no shame?


Exactly.

(01-02-2016, 02:15 AM)Rotobeast Wrote: I would totally love to take some of these hung-up cats to a bike week.

(01-02-2016, 02:22 AM)Benton Wrote: show someone getting beaten/shot/stabbed?

yay!

show a nipple?



priorities people.

(01-01-2016, 08:42 PM)bfine32 Wrote: So if I'm reading the OP correctly: This lady is in favor of letting women expose their nipples/breasts in public, regardless if they are breast feeding or not.

(01-02-2016, 07:39 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: If guys can then why not women? It's legal in places like New York.

(01-02-2016, 12:54 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Well, I'm not in favor of a guy exposing his nipples when I take the family to Applebees either. 

But to each their own. 

(01-02-2016, 12:54 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Well, I'm not in favor of a guy exposing his nipples when I take the family to Applebees either. 

But to each their own. 

(01-02-2016, 03:17 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Pretty sure most restaurants don't let shirtless men in. I'm talking about being out(side) in public.

(01-02-2016, 03:29 PM)bfine32 Wrote: But isn't the law in the OP talking about Restaurants and other such places.

Didn't realize it was only talking about walking around.