Family Forum / Pregnancy / Pregnancy / November 2006

Who is protecting us from these These Stewardess?

Who is protecting us from these Flight attendants? These Stewardess can
arbitrary have us kicked off a plane for the way we look or doing
something they don't approve. Even though the Supreme Court has deemed
it okay.

Flight attendant disciplined for booting mom

BURLINGTON, Vt. - A commuter airline has disciplined a flight attendant
who ordered a passenger off a plane for refusing to cover herself with
a blanket while breast-feeding her toddler, the airline said Friday.

Freedom Airlines spokesman Paul Skellon did not specify the discipline
in an e-mail announcing the action against the employee who had Emily
Gillette, of Santa Fe, N.M., removed from the plane Oct. 13 at
Burlington International Airport.

Gillette, 27, said she was breast-feeding her 22-month-old daughter in
a window seat in the next-to-last row, with no part of her breast
showing and her husband between her and the aisle.

Breastfeeding Protests: Nurse-Ins Begin
Breastfeeding moms held nurse-in protests at airports across the
country this week, to show opposition to Delta Airlines' ejection of a
breastfeeding mother, her husband, and her baby from one of its planes
this fall. The protest comes six months after the federal government
launched an ad campaign urging new mothers to breastfeed or raise
children's risk factors for all manner of undesirable health
consequences.

Delta Airlines has since disciplined the flight attendant who handed
the breastfeeding mother a blanket to cover up, then had an airline
representative escort her and her family off the plane for refusing to
comply.

The federal PSA campaign, meanwhile, focuses on the so-called dangers
of not breastfeeding such as increased infections, allergies, and
childhood obesity for infants who aren't breastfed for the first six
months of life. A new British medical report out this week shows
breastfed children may enjoy a lower risk of developing diabetes.

So my question is, are we sending mixed messages to new moms?

'Twould seem so! All but 12 states grant women the right to breastfeed
in public. The nurse-in participants want passage of pending federal
civil rights protection for breastfeeding moms nationwide.

Why can't we all just get along? Public breastfeeding while maintaining
a modicum of modesty for the faint-hearted would put this issue to bed
in a big hurry

'Flying While Muslim'
When six Muslim leaders were pulled off an airplane this week, some
advocacy groups said it was another example of religious and racial
profiling.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) -- US Airways said Tuesday it is
investigating the removal of six Muslim imams who were passengers on a
Monday flight heading to Phoenix, Arizona.

The clerics, who had been in Minnesota for a national imams conference,
were guilty of nothing more than "flying while Muslim," according to a
national Muslim advocacy group.

The alert was raised after the men performed their normal evening
prayers in the airport terminal before boarding Flight 300

Shalom,

---  Prof. Leland Milton Goldblatt, Ph.D. ®

http://www.prof.faithweb.com
http://drgoldblatt.blogspot.com
http://www.eboards4all.com/867960/

Prof. Leland Milton Goldblatt supports universal health care and
opposes free trade, which he argues deprives American workers of their
jobs while exploiting foreign workers in sweat-shop factories.