Urge Congress to pass the PUMP Act ensuring that working parents have
adequate spaces to pump and store breastmilk
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Dear Friend,

Cramped airplane bathrooms. Steamy hot cars. Filthy utility closets. These
are just some of the places that breastfeeding moms have had to pump
breastmilk because they didn’t have access to anything better. It doesn’t
have to be this way and the good news is Congress is set to take action!

[ [link removed] ]Tell your member of Congress to vote yes on the PUMP Act in support of
working moms who don’t have adequate spaces to pump and store breastmilk.

Right now 60% of moms find themselves pumping in less than ideal places
(like in a coat check closet?!?!). [1]  It shouldn’t have to be that way
and working together we can help change it!

The time is now! This week, Congress is taking up the Providing Urgent
Maternal Protections (PUMP) for Nursing Mothers Act. The PUMP Act would
strengthen workplace protections for lactating workers. We need to take
lactating parents out of the bathroom stalls, inside from the cars, and
into the pumping rooms they deserve.

Right now many parents plan to breastfeed or chestfeed but hit seemingly
insurmountable hurdles when they go back to work.  Returning to the
workplace in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic poses an additional
challenge.  Sadly, returning to work is too often a significant barrier to
breastfeeding. [ [link removed] ]

The simple truth is that not everyone has the time or place to pump. Under
the Affordable Care Act (ACA), parents who work an hourly job and some
salaried workers must be provided with a reasonable break time to express
milk up to one year after birth and a place, other than a bathroom, where
they can pump. [ [link removed] ]

[2]→ Click here and urge Congress to pass the PUMP Act ensuring that all
working parents have adequate spaces to pump and store breastmilk!

Parents from across the country have been sharing photos and stories of
the places they’ve pumped on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook via our
#IPumpedHere campaign.

MomsRising Member LeeAnn from New York shared, “The many humiliating
places I had to nurse/pump: behind an empty counter at an airline gate;
behind a display at a museum in Chicago; public bathrooms; conference
rooms (where I was walked in on several times despite privacy signs); and
empty classrooms’

LeAnn deserves better! Breastfeeding and chestfeeding parents across the
country deserve better!

[3]→ Add your name now so I can make sure your voice is heard too, and be
sure to share the link below with your friends and family so they can also
take action.

Together we can bring parents out of the bathroom stalls and into the
pumping rooms they deserve!

- Tina, Donna, and the whole MomsRising.org/MamásConPoder Team

P.S. Be sure to check out [ [link removed] ]IPumpedHere.org to see our hilarious videos,
find out more information about your pumping rights, and see even more
pictures from moms across the country. Add your own pics by using the
hashtag #IPumpedHere and sharing on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram! 

References:

[1] [ [link removed] ]Univ. of Minnesota Academic Health Center National Study
[2] [ [link removed] ]Surgeon’s General Call to Action on Breastfeeding
[3] [ [link removed] ]Break Time for Nursing Mothers under the FLSA


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