News Front

January, 1988

Nursing Mothers, BewareDubuque, Iowa—A woman who breast feeds her baby in public could run into trouble under Dubuque's amended ordinance against indecent exposure. Provoked by an incident in which a woman exposed her bare breasts to passing motorists on a downtown street, the city council voted to include "female breast nipples" among the private parts that could not be displayed in public. One councilman objected, saying that banning nursing was an invasion of privacy. The police chi...