This morning, the Supreme Court of Georgia unanimously ruled that a law requiring lactation care providers to obtain a state-issued license is unconstitutional and violates Georgian’s right to earn an honest living. The law, which was the first-of-its-kind in the nation, would have forced hundreds of women out of work—including Mary Jackson, a lactation care provider with more than three decades of experience. Together with Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere (ROSE), the nonprofit she helped found to educate families of color about breastfeeding, Mary challenged the license to stand up for her right to economic liberty and protect access to breastfeeding care for all moms and babies.Today’s ruling shows that courts look at the real-world implications of laws and are willing to strike those that harm the public.
