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No Right to Breastfeed

The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit held that neither a woman prisoner nor her child had any right to breastfeed the child while she was imprisoned. See: Southerland v. Thigpen, 784 F.2d 713 (5th Cir. 1986).

 

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