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