Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Louisville mothers stage ‘nurse-in’ protest (The Courier-Journal)

Nursing their babies as holiday travelers passed nearby, nine mothers at Louisville International Airport joined in a national protest Tuesday in support for public breastfeeding.

“Breastfeeding is not normal enough in our society,” said Jenny Claire Kragel, who was holding her 2-month old son, Soren. “And so we are just kind of here to spread the word that breastfeeding is normal and that it is not a crime to do it in public.”

They joined a host of women nationwide who staged protests at more than a dozen airports around the country, after the ejection of a nursing mother from a Delta Air Lines commuter flight in Vermont.


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