Ore. Moms Protest Pool Breast-Feeding Restriction

MILTON-FREEWATER, Ore. (AP) - A group of mothers has staged a

"nurse-in" at a public pool in Eastern Oregon.

At issue was whether the state's law favoring breast-feeding

conflicts with the state's law requiring food and drink at public

pools to remain four feet from the pool's edge.

A week earlier, a lifeguard at the Milton-Freewater Aquatic

Center asked a woman feeding her child under a nursing cover at the

shallow end of the kiddie pool to move to the locker room.

The pool manager says state law requires all food and drink at

public pools to stay behind a blue line that marks a four-foot

perimeter from pool's edge.

The mothers who nursed in protest Friday kept behind the blue

line.

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Information from: East Oregonian, http://www.eastoregonian.info

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