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.

Nearly weekly there is a news story about a woman being kicked out of an establishment for breastfeeding her baby. Restaurants, public pools, churches, art museums, courts of law, schools, and stores, including Target, American Girl Store, and ironically, Victoria's Secret, are all sites of recent skirmishes over a woman's right to nurse.

This article discusses what the real issue is with breastfeeding in public, indecency. Some ads for breastfeeding in public have left some complaining.

Breastfeeding in public necessarily means breastfeeding around other people. Therefore if we learn to do it discretely it will not be such a controversy.

These are stories about people breastfeeding and the public being against it. What will it take to make people not be so put off at the sight of a woman breastfeeding?

Breastfeeding Campaign Posters Stir Online Debate "Private dining. Would you eat here?" asks the text of one of poster, which features a photo of a young mother breastfeeding her infant while perched on the lid of a public toilet. Two other images in the series, of different mom-baby pairs, ask, "Bon appétit.

Exposed breasts. They are all over the media: in movies, magazines, even television. So why is it a big deal to breastfeed your own infant?

Justia columnist and Hofstra law professor Joanna Grossman comments on the law regarding public breastfeeding. She covers both of the potentially applicable types of laws: indecent exposure laws, and public accommodations laws.

Stories of women being harassed for breastfeeding in public. These women fight for what they believe in.

A project of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health. Tips on how to breastfeed in public with feeling uncomfortable.

supporting breastfeeding is not the same as breastfeeding in public. Some people agree with it until the subject of doing it in public is brought up.

Two U.S. states do not protect a mother's right to nurse her child in public: WV And ID. Three additional states only exempt breastfeeding from public indecency laws: WY, SD, MI. Every state except West Virginia, has some law related to breastfeeding but the laws vary widely.

Health professionals and public health officials promote breastfeeding to improve infant health. Both mothers and children benefit from breast milk. Breast milk contains antibodies that protect infants from bacteria and viruses. Breastfed children have fewer ear, respiratory and urinary tract infections and have diarrhea less often.