Airline's treatment of woman draws ire
ROMULUS -- Ten moms, a grandma and a contingent of diaper-clad rabble rousers staged a "nurse-in" at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Tuesday as part of a nationwide protest against the treatment of a nursing mother aboard a plane.
Emily Gillette and her family were escorted off a plane departing from Burlington, Vt., on Oct. 13 after she refused to cover up while nursing her 22-month-old toddler during a flight on Freedom Airlines, a contractor for Delta Air Lines.
Mothers across the country are buzzing about the incident on Internet sites like BloggingBaby.com and Motheringdotcommune.
The grassroots protests, with no identifiable leadership, occurred at 10 a.m. at Delta ticket counters nationwide.
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