Recently there has been an uproar about women breastfeeding in public. Women every where are being told that they shouldn't breastfeed in public. They are told it is "unhygienic" and "inappropriate." And yet, breastfeeding is one of the most natural things in the world.

The amount of benefits that come from breastfeeding your child are incredible. If the woman is capable it is recommended to breastfeed a baby for the first year. A breastfeeding article states that breastfeeding your child for the first year can decrease their risk of diabetes, asthma, obesity and high cholesterol when they are older.

Showing your breasts in public is completely outrageous, especially when it comes to feeding your baby, right? No.

You see advertisements left and right using breasts to sell. So why aren't women allowed to use their breasts for something so natural? Like, I don't know maybe feeding their newborn baby?

Well see, that's the thing, women are allowed. There are laws specifically stating that women are allowed to breastfeed publicly in forty nine states. Countries like Australia, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, all have laws allowing women to breastfeed in public.

Breasts are used to sell. This advertisement, unfortunately will not send people into an uproar if they see this in public. However, the sight of a woman giving her baby the food it needs to survive and live a healthy life has people losing their minds.

A single mother in New Jersey was fired because the hotel would not give her the extra break time she need to pump breast milk for her three month old daughter. Another woman was not allowed back into a restaurant because she was breast feeding. The restaurant had it's own set of rules stating that women can breast feed as long as they do it discretely. And yet there is a law stating that women are allowed to breastfeed in public.

Women are having to protest for rights that they already legally have. We need to start normalizing breastfeeding.

From a young age women's bodies are sexualized. It starts with dress code saying that girls should not show so much skin, because it's "distracting." Sexualizing a young girl's body saying that it's distracting to boys is where it begins. And it never ends. Women's bodies are sexualized for advertisements, to sell just about anything.

So why is there all this commotion when women want to publicly breastfeed their babies? Because when you get down to it breasts are there exactly for that reason.

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