AAP News Vol. 14 No. 11 November 1998, p. 4
© 1998 American Academy of Pediatrics
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AAP endorses Right to Breastfeed Act

Sherry Trust Llewellyn

As Kathy Kotik sat quietly with her three children in the U.S. Capitol, discreetly nursing her youngest while observing a session of Congress, a guard approached and asked her to leave. She was sure she had heard wrong. Was her 7-year-old talking too loudly? Was the 5-year-old misbehaving? No, she was told, it was the baby who was causing the problem — by breastfeeding. The guard told her that she'd have to "do that somewhere else."