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Kevin Fischer is a veteran broadcaster, the recipient of over 150 major journalism awards from the Milwaukee Press Club, the Wisconsin Associated Press, the Northwest Broadcast News Association, the Wisconsin Bar Association, and others. He has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for over three decades. A longtime aide to state Senate Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature, Kevin can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, "InterCHANGE," on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10, and heard filling in on Newstalk 1130 WISN. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their lovely baby daughter, Kyla Audrey, in Franklin.
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I have blogged about this issue and talked about it on while filling in on Newstalk 1130 WISN. A bill allowing breastfeeding anyplace, anytime, anywhere is a bad idea. And I’m 100% pro-child, 100% pro-breastfeeding. There just have to be reasonable limits.
The bill, signed into law today by Governor Doyle, states:
“A mother may breast-feed her child in any public or private location where the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be. In such a location, no person may prohibit a mother from breast-feeding her child, direct a mother to move to another location to breast-feed her child, direct a mother to cover her child or breast while breast-feeding, or otherwise restrict a mother from breast-feeding.”
In other words, in some terms used by many women who called my show on WISN to voice opposition, a breastfeeding mom can just whip those babies out whenever and wherever she chooses whether you like it or not.
So, using a scenario I’ve outlined in the past, when I usher at church on Sundays, and a woman in the front pews surrounded by children decides it’s time to breastfeed, I cannot politely approach her and kindly request that she come to the back of church where I will make sure she’s comfortable.
No, I can’t do that because “a person who interferes with that right is subject to a forfeiture not to exceed $200 under the general penalty provision under current law.”
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