Breast Feeding in the classroom by Kate Rapp

I was planning on doing my blog about The Business of Being Born, and how when I first watched it I wanted to show my boyfriend, my friends and family the movie because it's so amazing. But then I read the article about the professor who breast feed during class. I became really angry about the situation because honestly who has the right to tell someone not to feed their child- in ANY situation. So I did my research and found that it is legal for any mother to breastfeed in private and in the public and 45 states including New York and Washington (where American University is). "New York created a Breastfeeding Mothers Bill of Rights, which is required to be posted in maternal health care facilities. New York also created a law that allows a child under one year of age to accompany the mother to a correctional facility if the mother is breastfeeding at the time she is committed" (http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/health/breastfeeding-state-laws.aspx). But also employers that have more than 50 employees have to provide reasonable break times and places (other then the bathroom) to either express milk or to breastfeed a child. So that makes me wonder if the college did provide these services? But even if they have, it is still legal for a mother to do this, so why was it ever an issue? It also disgusts me that someone would have a problem with a mother feeding her child, it's the equivalence of any other child asking a mother for food and that mother completely disregarding/ignoring her child. Along with that I hate that people sexualize breastfeeding- it's not like a woman wants to take out her breast and show it to the public, it just so happens that's where it comes out. If breast milk came out of your nose no one would have a problem with "nose-feeding" in public. A woman shouldn't be punished for nourishing and providing for her child.