Monday, November 20, 2006

Breast-feeding = Terrorism?

A woman was recently kicked off a Delta flight for breast-feeding. From an AP article:

Gillette said she was discreetly breast-feeding her 22-month-old daughter on Oct. 13 as their flight prepared to leave Burlington International Airport. She said she was seated by the window in the next-to-last row, her husband was seated between her and the aisle and no part of her breast was showing.

A flight attendant tried to hand her a blanket and told her to cover up, Gillette said. She declined, telling the flight attendant she had a legal right to breast-feed her baby.

Moments later, a Delta ticket agent approached and said the flight attendant had asked that the family be removed from the flight, Gillette said.

Read the entire article here.

And if you feel spurred to action MomsRising.org has set up a pro-breast-feeding petition here.

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