Breastfeeding has been in the news for the last couple years: as something to get arrested for. Both Delta Airlines and Toy R Us have come under fire by civil rights unions for barring breastfeeding in public. As if breastfeeding is illegal (it's not), or breastfeeding is a public health issue (it's not) or if people aren't accustomed to seeing breasts everywhere they look anyways (any magazine, any TV ad, anytime).

Shockingly, these cases arise from sheer ignorance. Often, the police don't even know the laws of their own state in regards to breastfeeding. Yes, there are laws on the books about breastfeeding, but guess what: these laws are usually meant to protect mother's rights, not rescue a shamed public for seeing a breast used for its intended purpose.

This outrageous trend has spawned a whole new kind of civil disobedience too: lactivism!

So, mothers everywhere: know the breastfeeding rights in your state. There is no national policy, and state laws differ in languaging in regard to what is proper, what is public, and what is "discrete."