Breastfeeding Promotion Act
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.
Let’s make Nancy Pelosi – the incoming Speaker of the House of Representatives – aware that the Breastfeeding Promotion Act is important and that we would like her support in January. Here’s a suggestion we’ve heard to help the Breastfeeding Promotion Act have a better chance of going through:
* 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 was awaiting grandbaby # 6 right around Election Day. The baby is a boy named Paul.
* Write in the card:
1) All babies have the Right to Breastfeed anywhere that the mother has the right to be
2) Their mothers' need policies in the law that support 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 email to every mother, friend, 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:
Representative Nancy Pelosi
2371 Rayburn HOB
Washington, DC 20515
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.
Let’s make Nancy Pelosi – the incoming Speaker of the House of Representatives – aware that the Breastfeeding Promotion Act is important and that we would like her support in January. Here’s a suggestion we’ve heard to help the Breastfeeding Promotion Act have a better chance of going through:
* 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 was awaiting grandbaby # 6 right around Election Day. The baby is a boy named Paul.
* Write in the card:
1) All babies have the Right to Breastfeed anywhere that the mother has the right to be
2) Their mothers' need policies in the law that support 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 email to every mother, friend, 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:
Representative Nancy Pelosi
2371 Rayburn HOB
Washington, DC 20515
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