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January 30, 2008
What does Rep. Leah Vukmiir have against cancer and MS patients and nursing Moms?
Posted by Gary Storck
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Even a bill the State Senate passed protecting nursing mothers from harassment is stuck and facing death in Rep. Leah Vukmir's committee, just like AB 550, the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act. Might Vukmir be Wisconsin's meanest state legislator?
From the Jan. 30, 2008 editions of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Do what's best for babies
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By Jennifer L.W. Fink
(snip)
But the Right to Breast-feed Act, which allows women to breast-feed anywhere they and their children are otherwise authorized to be and includes a $200 penalty for anyone who harasses the breast-feeding mother, has not yet become law. It passed the Senate last spring but stalled in the Assembly. It's currently languishing before the Assembly Committee on Health and Healthcare Reform, chaired by Rep. Leah Vukmir (R-Wauwatosa). A representative from Risser's office told me, "There's not a lot of expectation of action." (Vukmir did not return my calls.)
Posted by Gary at January 30, 2008 10:57 PM
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