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Breastfeeding Moms Silenced By The Military

Mom2Mom military women breastfeeding

Credit: Brynja Photography

Above: Mom2Mom military women breastfeeding

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

By Joanne Faryon, Pat Finn, Patty Lane, Beth Ford Roth

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Breastfeeding while serving in the military.

Aired 6/5/12

Beth Ford Roth, Home Post military blogger for KPBS

Wendy Patrick, SDSU Management Department, Business Ethics

Transcript

A photo of two women service members in uniform breastfeeding their infants has caused some controversy...and generated a lot of response on our military blog Home Post as well as KPBS.org. But the women are no longer speaking out.

We'll look at the issue of breastfeeding in uniform, in public and at the workplace.

Evening Edition

Above: Beth Ford Roth, Home Post military blogger for KPBS, and Wendy Patrick, professor of business ethics in the SDSU Management Department, talk to KPBS about a photo of two military women breastfeeding.

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