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This week on "The State of Ohio": State lawmakers consider what they can do in the wake of the horrible and yet miraculous escape story out of Cleveland involving three women held prisoner in a house for a decade. New data shows more than half of all violent crimes are committed by a very small numbers of offenders. Lawmakers are now working to target that tiny group. And more thoughts on legislation that would dramatically change rules on unions in Ohio.
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| House says businesses can't ban women breastfeeding babies. |
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By Karen Kasler - May 18, 2005 |
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Lawmakers in the House have approved a bill requiring businesses to allow women to breastfeed their babies in public. Republican Rep. Linda Reidelbach of suburban Columbus says the idea for the bill came out of a case from 1997, in which a woman sued Wal-Mart for being forced to leave the store because she was nursing her infant. The bill passed the House, but not without some concerns from another lawmaker. Rep. Diana Fessler, a Republican from the Dayton area, said she was worried the language in the bill would allow women to expose their breasts in any public place and businesses would be helpless to stop them. Fessler's amendment to revise the bill was rejected. |
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Rep. Linda Reidelbach (R-Worthington) (:24) 
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