Posted on 25 January 2012.
WVoN update, January 26, 2012
We posted a story yesterday from Weekly World News about a Virginia woman who was allegedly arrested for breastfeeding her one-month-old son near the home of a Republican Presidential hopeful.
It said that Callista Gingrich, the wife of the Presidential runner and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, called 911 to report the offender, Sherry Valentine.
We have now been told this is a fake and so have removed the link.
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How do I find the other comments for this article??
You can’t I’m afraid as we chose not to publish them because the story turned out (we’re pretty sure) to be a fake.
If the story is a fake, why don’t you completely remove it??
Because it’s been tweeted to the cyberworld and if we remove it, it shows up as a broken link. We decided therefore, as we had so many comments, to give a brief explanation of what happened and then Sarah Cheverton posted an opinion piece about it.
Thank you, certainly makes sense.
Unfortunately, given the actions of some politicians associated with Gingrich’s party, the story is all too believable. They are a major part of the reason that body-knowledge and body-image related outcomes are so appalling in the USA. The international comparisons are crystal clear, prudery results in immense harm. It is not coincidence that the USA has ten times the teenage pregnancy rate of Denmark and several tens of times the sexually transmitted infection rates. How many more young people must die before the politicians set prejudice aside and make policy according to facts and evidence?