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Incidents where public breastfeeding made the news are documented here. In 2009, 43 states declared public breastfeeding legal. It helps to be polite about the issue when someone says something to you when you are breastfeeding in a public place.

Incidents where public breastfeeding made the news are documented here. In 2009, 43 states declared public breastfeeding legal. It helps to be polite about the issue when someone says something to you when you are breastfeeding in a public place.

Basically, breastfeeding in public IS legal in the United States, though sometimes people simply don't know it and therefore might complain about it. This means you can nurse your baby anywhere that you are allowed to be with the baby. Forty-three states (as of 2009) have additionally passed a law that explicitly states that fact.

Smoking in Public Places - it's about rights too It's popular to ban smoking in public places, but there are a lot of issues about rights that need to be considered. We also need to consider what a "public place" is and whether the government has any business regulating private affairs and personal choices in places owned and managed by private parties.

This article supports banning smoking in public places.  Studies show that there have been positive health and economic impacts where these bans have been implimented.

This article takes the side against being allowed to smoke in public places. The author argues that smoking may be a personal choice for the smoker, but not the people around them inhaling the second hand smoke. It also speaks of the negative influence it could have on children.

This website is an online community where people can read debates on current issues. They can also create and participate in debates. This particular web page contains many reasons why people think that banning smoking in public places is good or not.

This reading is about if whether or not smoking in public should be banned. It also gives the reasons why people feel that it should be banned as well as not banned based upon their opinions and beliefs.

This website is about the rise of banning smoking in public places. This effects many people's freedom to smoke. On this website is a video explaining both sides of the national debate on banning smoking in public places

Prayer has been a topic of some controversy with the public school systems in America for over 50 years, it has been federally banned other than silent prayers, and in some states it has been banned all together. This is a disgusting violation of Americans first amendment right, as well as our inalienable rights as human of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, for some prayer is a pursuit of happiness. To ban ones ability to pray in school, while they are being taught as if God were not real, is a outrageous violation of the rights of not just Christians, but Islamic folk, and people of Jewish decent. Prayer offers peace, and a hope for salvation, and a denial of such ability in a place where most students attend is an outrageous violation of our rights as humans, and as Americans.

I am on the fence with this topic. I think that all Americans should have the right to pray in school but on the other hand I feel that it may be disrespectful to the third party. This is a tough topic for all people weather they are religious or not.

America is the land of opportunity and freedom. We have the freedom to follow any religion. I think that banning prayer in schools is something that takes away from that right. If it's pray is part of the religion, why is it frowned upon and seen as disrespectful? Our country should respect and go for what it stands for.

All questions about where breast feeding mothers are allowed to breastfeed or what they can do when discriminated against are found in this page.

A poll done by the Knight-Gallup foundation is reviewed in this article by MTSU in which the author, Ken Paulson, gives his thoughts on the polarizing effects of how American Media has changed from being simply separated by partisanship to a new era of inflamed division. Paulson cites the poll by Knight-Gallup to show that public opinion coincides with his own views in that our media is too heavily biased and is to blame for political division. The article has a strong close bringing readers to be introspective as to why the news articles in which they might place blame are continuously fired up by views and demand.

Secondhand smoke causes an increased risk for cancer. There are many concerns because children are exposed. There are ethical issues concerning the segregation of smokers and nonsmokers.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) focuses public attention on emerging civil liberties, privacy, First Amendment issues. This being a huge privacy concern for a lot people, simply because there are no regulations in place for drones. Someone can easily go buy a drone and spy on you for just outside your own home. It could even follow you from home to work, figuring out daily routines. These makes people vulnerable to crimes against them and their families.

This is interesting. I think that people should have some sort of permit to be able to buy a drone. It is very inactive to peoples privacy. No one really knows what these people do with the drones. They could be invading privacy for bad reasons for all we know.

Service dogs are helpful to people with disabilities. This article by Arden Moore describes some of the problems and concerns that owners of emotional support animals face from both non-disability people and people who own service dogs.

"Question: What percentage of students with disabilities are educated in regular classrooms? Response: The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), enacted in 1975, mandates that children and youth ages 3-21 with disabilities be provided a free and appropriate public school education. In fall 2013, some 95 percent of 6- to 21-year-old students with disabilities were served in regular schools; 3 percent were served in a separate school for students with disabilities; 1 percent were placed in regular private schools by their parents; and less than 1 percent each were served in one of the following environments: in a separate residential facility, homebound or in a hospital, or in a correctional facility. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. (2016). Digest of Education Statistics, 2015 (NCES 2016-014), Chapter 2."

Smoking affects many more people than just the person that is choosing to do so. This website entails a number of ways smoking around children or the workplace can severely effect anyone exposed to it.

I am eternally grateful that smoking is not permitted inside public places anymore. Why should adults and children have to suffer from another habit of someone else. Great topic!

This is a topic that is very important to because I feel that it is a huge social injustice towards people who don't smoke or want to deal with the effects of smoking. This is especially unfair to children and women who are pregnant because the health effects can be extremely detrimental.

The author describes the United States prison system. The amount of people incarcerated in the U.S. is astonishing. The prison system lacks transparency; which is cause for great concern. The public is often aware of what takes place in a prison. The lack of public knowledge creates unsafe environments for both inmates and staff.

Article from the CATO institute about the past NSA abuses that have been caught linking it to the current situation. This article presents a very bleak future for privacy.

This article discusses how the United States is behind when it comes to providing paid maternity leave. The United States does not guarantee paid maternity leave.

I feel like every women should be guaranteed paid maternity leave. The government constantly wants us to re produce to keep the world going, so they should encourage women that they'll be fine with money and won't have to worry about missing work.

Maternity leave should be a MUST. Pregnancy is tough and the delivery is life changing. Mother's go through all different kinds of changes. It is unfair for a mother to have to go through these changes all while worrying about having to go to work and missing and wondering how her child might be doing.

This article introduces many facts about how harmful smoking can be but it also provides facts that its not easy to quit. The website includes both points of views about how smoking has been banned in certain places and nowadays it is questionable of whether Americans have freedom to smoke or if smoking is slowly becoming extinct.

HOW SOCIABLE, EVEN GLAMOROUS, it all once seemed. Today, the lighting of a cigarette is commonly regarded as the epitome of antisocial behavior. Leading men and women of the silver screen once puffed away before audiences of all ages, but today the New York State Department of Health announces in full-page ads that cigarettes "don't belong in youth-rated movies, period."

Tweet By Jake Marcus, J.D. Most women who breastfeed their children will, at some time or other, find it necessary to nurse their children outside of their homes. For most women who nurse in public places, feeding their children will be no more stressful than nursing at home. Other people often ...