Saturday, November 18, 2006

FLYING BERNIE SANDERS AND THE BREASTFEEDING FREEDOM FIGHTERS (American Chronicle)

It's not your typical Vermont headline:

"Mad Moms Stage Nurse-In"

When I saw that this had happened in the Green Mountain State, my next-door neighbor, I envisioned a horde of maniacal country matriarchs running amok, attempting to heal people against their will, and I wondered why Vermont had to enlist their help for such a mission when it already had Bernie Sanders.

Closer examination, however, revealed that the "mad moms" were a group of nursing (breastfeeding) mothers staging a protest at the Burlington airport by sitting in front of a ticket sales counter with their babies.

They were angered over the recent removal of a nursing mother passenger from a Freedom Airlines Burlington-to-New York flight because the woman had been breastfeeding on board and would not, when pressed to do so by a flight attendant, "discreetly" cover her baby's head with a blanket. When she refused, she was "booted off the plane."

I'm trusting that this was not done in-flight.


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