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british citizens, please sign petition

BillieTheBotBillieTheBot Posts: 8,721 Bot
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http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/breastfedright/

The government are bringing in a law to make it illegal to prevent anyone from breastfeeding a baby under 6months in public.
While this is a step in the right direction, it still means that someone could actually be charged with indecency for breastfeeding a baby older than 6 months.

considering the appallingly low breastfeeding rates in this country anyway, I think that six months is an incredibly short limit, and not even in line with the WHO guidelines who suggest breastfeeding for 2 years.

Please sign the petition if you can.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I thought it already was :confused:

    I will definitely sign. I'm with you though, I'm not sure why there has to be a time limit on it, six months seems very young...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Signed, i fully agree with the above.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Why do they want to test my email ad before I can sign the petition- weird!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I didn't realise it was illigal to breastfeed in public :confused:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Yes I'll sign it :naughty:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Women feed babies through their ... their ... boobies???? :confused:

    billboard_milk1.jpg

    p.s. I'll sign it just to keep me brother happy ... :)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    kangoo wrote: »
    I didn't realise it was illigal to breastfeed in public :confused:

    It is not illegal to do so, but that the law doesn't protect you over the age of 6 months

    New legislation is being proposed to make it an offence to stop a woman breastfeeding a baby under six months of age in public. After that age then there is no such law
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i think i was wrong there actually. It is illegal in some instances#

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/article4182468.ece
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I will sign it, but be aware that the petitions on that website are never listened to.

    And I'm not sure this really is the best way forward, its legislation as spin - something New Labour has got rather good at.

    What we need is a much better public health campaign to encourage breat feeding, changing the culture rather than the law.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    You're kidding. Doesn't the government have more important things to worry about than mothers breastfeeding their kids?!

    If people can't handle the sight of mothers breastfeeding, I don't know how they cope with all the nudity and stuff on TV, in magazines and everywhere else in our culture.

    (I've signed it by the way)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    So at what age do you think it should be illegal?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Runnymede wrote: »
    So at what age do you think it should be illegal?

    Surely biology can decide that.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Runnymede wrote: »
    So at what age do you think it should be illegal?

    I dont think any age limit needs to be put on it full-stop, but since the WHOs guidelines are that breastfeeding should ideally be 2 years, even though its barely a fraction of a percentage of people that breastfeed that long, that is reason enough that the law shouldnt stop offering protection for feeding an infant a quarter of that age
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Signed.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    What a strange law.

    Hope they change this, it's utterly ridiculous to criminalise breastfeeding like that.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Pringle wrote: »
    You're kidding. Doesn't the government have more important things to worry about than mothers breastfeeding their kids?!

    Given the sort of laws this government likes putting into place I'd be happy for them to spend an entire session debating this.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I'll sign, but that web site is the largest public pacifier I've seen in a long time; It's just a massive, online dummy - it shuts people up but ultimately it's fruitless.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    CptCoatHanger wrote: »
    I'll sign, but that web site is the largest public pacifier I've seen in a long time; It's just a massive, online dummy - it shuts people up but ultimately it's fruitless.

    like voting.

    but we still do it.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I have signed - but i would reccomend that you write you your MP and get him to ask a question about it in parliament and include all the WHO statistics as well.
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    JsTJsT Posts: 18,268 Skive's The Limit
    katralla wrote: »
    Why do they want to test my email ad before I can sign the petition- weird!
    So Gordon Brown can come and shit in your inbox :thumb:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Just signed.:)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Pringle wrote: »
    If people can't handle the sight of mothers breastfeeding, I don't know how they cope with all the nudity and stuff on TV, in magazines and everywhere else in our culture.

    :yes: You wouldnt think breasts where for feeding babies the way certain parts of the media carry on.

    Signed.
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    I'm not a british citizen so I won't sign, but I agree with the idea.

    I wonder if anyone here disagrees.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    We really do have the most useless government ever known to man, don't we? The brainless dolt who came up with this idea should be put on the next ship out of the country and made to walk the plank.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    JsT wrote: »
    So Gordon Brown can come and shit in your inbox :thumb:

    ooh baby, hubba hubba!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    stargalaxy wrote: »
    We really do have the most useless government ever known to man, don't we?

    Its the only government you've ever known. In the grand scheme of things they arent that much better or worse than all the others.
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