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[Q]The bill was introduced after an incident last summer at a Victoria's Secret lingerie store in Mount Pleasant.
Lori Rueger, who attended Wednesday's meeting, said she was told by a store clerk that she could not breast-feed her 10-week-old daughter in a dressing room and was encouraged to use a restroom instead.
"I can't really comprehend the human being who told you that," said Rep. Walt McLeod, D-Little Mountain. "It's really kind of subhuman behavior."
Victoria's Secret, seldom shy about its intimate clothing marketing, says what it calls a misunderstanding with Rueger has had a positive effect.
Victoria's Secret has a "long-standing policy to allow nursing in our stores. We are still for and about women," said Anthony Hebron, a spokesman for the retailer's parent, Limited Brands Inc. But the incident propelled discussion of public breast-feeding and "got the public focused," he said.[/Q]
[Q]The bill was introduced after an incident last summer at a Victoria's Secret lingerie store in Mount Pleasant.
Lori Rueger, who attended Wednesday's meeting, said she was told by a store clerk that she could not breast-feed her 10-week-old daughter in a dressing room and was encouraged to use a restroom instead.
"I can't really comprehend the human being who told you that," said Rep. Walt McLeod, D-Little Mountain. "It's really kind of subhuman behavior."
Victoria's Secret, seldom shy about its intimate clothing marketing, says what it calls a misunderstanding with Rueger has had a positive effect.
Victoria's Secret has a "long-standing policy to allow nursing in our stores. We are still for and about women," said Anthony Hebron, a spokesman for the retailer's parent, Limited Brands Inc. But the incident propelled discussion of public breast-feeding and "got the public focused," he said.[/Q]