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The Effort by
"Citizens Against Breast feeding" to Ban Nursing in The U.S.-Fiction!
Summary of
eRumor The message says an
organization called CITIZENS AGAINST BREAST-FEEDING has collected
more than 200,000 signatures on a petition calling for the
criminalization of breast feeding. The group has a website at www.banbreastfeeding.com.
The
Truth The website is real and
the group has conducted a handful of publicity events, but
TruthOrFiction.com has classified this as a hoax. An
investigation into the site reveals that some of the people
associated with it would not hold the prudish views that the site
promotes. It all comes across more as satire than sincerity.
For example, some of the statements on the site are silly. It
claims that breast feeding is an incestuous act between mother
and child that is sexual in nature. The writer of the email
claims to have a woman friend who experiences multiple orgasms while
breast feeding but has trouble performing s
A real example of the story as it has
been circulated:
