Lawsuit Over Breast-Feeding

Re “Woman Sues Bookstore Over Right to Breast-Feed,” April 29.

Being a woman myself, I find Kerry Madden-Lunsford’s suit against Borders Books & Music very upsetting. The 1998 state law that allows public breast-feeding is obviously a very new law. I would guess that there are many people who were unaware of the law, including two Borders employees who confronted Madden-Lunsford. The Borders general manager, in my opinion, has done everything to rectify the situation, including a public apology, a sign welcoming those who feel it is necessary to breast-feed in public and the promise to better educate employees. I feel this is a fair solution to the problem and has brought the new law to the attention of the public.

Madden-Lunsford is a published author and so I would assume is an intelligent and enlightened woman. I would also assume that her complaint would only be about the ability to breast-feed in public. Instead, the situation has been turned into an attempt to make a quick buck. I would have admired her if she had accepted the apology of the bookstore and gone back to writing books as a way to make a living.

CHRISTINE RINTOUL, Glendale