Obamacare Brings New Mandates for Breast-Feeding

Laura Ingraham on the new provision, and what it means for business and breast-feeding moms in the workforce.

Nursing mothers get a break at work, thanks to health reform

by Rita Rubin - USA Today

One little-discussed provision in the new health care reform law requires all employers to provide unpaid break time and private space for nursing mothers to pump breast milk at work.

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., who sponsored the breast-feeding legislation in the Senate, calls it "a revolution in American culture."

"Essentially, until now there's never been a national discussion, a national sense of, 'Oh, of course this is something we should accommodate,' " Merkley says.

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