Thursday, November 16, 2006

Delta kicks off Mother for Breastfeeding (Blogger News Network)

Delta Airlines has now stepped into the breastfeeding battle by kicking a mother off of one of their planes out of Burlington, Vermont. Emily Gillette, 27, was discreetly feeding her 22 month old daughter near the window in the next-to-the-last row, with her husband in the seat next to her when a puritanical flight attendent gave her a blanket instructing her to cover up. Mrs. Gillette politely refused as she was completely covered up to begin with and then informed the attendent that she had the legal right to feed her hungry baby. Immediately thereafter a ticket agent came to the family and told them that the flight attendent had asked for them to be removed from the plane. They complied without complaint at the time, according to Mrs. Gillette, “out of embarrassment”.



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