Rep. Carolyn Maloney is going to reintroduce the Breastfeeding Promotion Act this coming session.
The Breastfeeding Promotion would: amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect breastfeeding by new mothers; provide
tax incentives for businesses that establish private lactation areas in the workplace; provide for a performance standard
for breast pumps; and provide families with a tax deduction for breastfeeding equipment.
GET INVOLVED: Make the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi aware that the Breastfeeding
Promotion Act is very important and that we desire and expect her support in January.
Go to a card store and purchase (or make a homemade) card that is a "Congratulations on the New Grand-baby"
card. The Speaker and the press have made much of the fact that she is a grandmother first and that she held her new
grandson, Paul as she shook hands and accepted congratulations from her fellow House members after being sworn in.
Write in the card:
1) Every baby has the Right to Breastfeed anywhere that the mother has the right to be.
2) Their mothers need a law that supports the government's Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign to educate employers and
workers of mothers' rights.
3) Ask her to throw the full weight of her position behind getting the Breastfeeding Promotion Act PASSED this coming
session.
Get all your friends to sign your card before you mail it to Speaker Pelosi. Or buy/make several cards and get them
addressed/stamped and ready to go and collect signatures from supportive friends who you know have good intentions, but
little time, and mail them out with your own.
And lastly, send this message to every mother, friend, listserv, breastfeeding support group, and parenting site you
know so that others can also send a card. The idea is to get hundreds if not thousands of signatures/cards sent to Nancy
Pelosi's office right now so that, by the time the Breastfeeding Promotion Act is reintroduced in January, she and her
staff will have it on their radar.
The address to mail a card to Speaker Nancy Pelosi is:
Office of the Speaker
H-232, US Capitol
Washington, DC 20515
Updated: January 11, 2007
