I REFER to the broadcast of Question Time on December 14, 2017.
The panel was asked: "Should mothers be given £200 by the Government to encourage them to breastfeed their babies?"
Professor Robert Winston didn't think that money was the answer.
He replied: "It's a cultural issue. It should be permitted in public."
Professor Winston has the prestige of being a scientist, and the influence of being a broadcaster.
But he doesn't understand the principle that no-one has the right to consent to immodesty on behalf of someone else.
I recently saw a young mother who not only chose to breastfeed her baby on a public transport vehicle, she also chose to sit on a rearward-facing seat to do it.
She could have bottle fed her baby, but she did not.
The occasional bottle feed will not harm a baby.
Sanction of this kind of behaviour in public is an insult and there is something wrong with a culture that encourages it.
R Cochrane, Irby.
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