
Make Our Emoji Obsolete: Click to Tweet Your Representative About #LactationRooms
How psyched were we to see news of New York’s new lactation law?!
Yesterday, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York signed into law a bill requiring that women in the city have a place to go in public buildings—from court buildings to city health centers—to pump or to nurse their children. And existing bathrooms will not count (nice try, corner-cutters).
What a great day for the moms and moms-to-be of New York.
But, for all the moms in other cities reading of this news on smartphones balanced precariously on their laps as they nurse or pump in a dingy bathroom stall, we need to keep going.
Because, only a few other cities have a law like this on the books – most notably Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Madison, WI, according to The New York Times.
So, we’re asking you: Take five seconds to tweet your state representative along with one of our nursing or pumping emoji and ask your congressman or congresswoman to put #lactationrooms in public places and #normalizebreastfeeding.
Here’s a list of state representatives on Twitter. Click on a Tweet below to edit and send to your representative!
@RepDianaDeGette let’s follow NY’s lead so no mom has to pump on a toilet #NormalizeBreastfeeding #lactationrooms pic.twitter.com/7MSjxtjJ2j
— EmojiMom (@emojimom) August 12, 2016
@mikecapuano let’s follow NY’s lead and put #lactationrooms in public places! #NormalizeBreastfeeding pic.twitter.com/QMCrN6lW3Y
— EmojiMom (@emojimom) August 12, 2016
We have lot of moms to go before we can make our “pumping in the bathroom” emoji obsolete.