07/05/2009

Associated Press

A group of mothers has staged a "nurse-in" at a public pool in Eastern Oregon.

At issue was whether the state's law favoring breast-feeding conflicts with the state's law requiring food and drink at public pools to remain four feet from the pool's edge.

A week earlier, a lifeguard at the Milton-Freewater Aquatic Center asked a woman feeding her child under a nursing cover at the shallow end of the kiddie pool to move to the locker room.

The pool manager says state law requires all food and drink at public pools to stay behind a blue line that marks a four-foot perimeter from pool's edge.

The mothers who nursed in protest Friday kept behind the blue line.

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Information from: East Oregonian, http://www.eastoregonian.info