[Mr. Brightside]

I would take the airline's side on this. She was asked to cover up and failed to do so.

And I don't know how Vermont laws would cover this. Assuming she was flying to her home in New Mexico, she would have crossed over a dozen states with a dozen different breast feeding laws.

[Tax-chick]

A flight attendant tried to hand her a blanket and told her to cover up, Gillette said. She declined, telling the flight attendant she had a legal right to breast-feed her baby.

In other words, she picked a fight with the flight attendant before takeoff. What a dumb thing to do.

[Indy Pendance]

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[HitmanLV]

Women who defiantly nurse in public are whackos, plain and simple.

[martin_fierro]

Emily Gillette, 27, of Santa Fe, N.M.

WTFIIWNM?

[Buddy B]

as their flight prepared to leave Burlington International Airport.

The wheels of the aircraft were on the ground in Vermont at the time of the blanket incident.

[andyssister]

Sounds like she was looking for a fight and hoping for a payday.

It's easy to nurse babies in public with no one having any idea what you're doing.

[YaYa123]

let's see, a Burlington, Vermont flight to New York City would take how long? And the nursing baby was a walking, talking, 2 months shy of being two year old, toddler. I bet Mom feeds this kid regular people food, juice and water out of sippy cups, and all manner of snack treats when it suits her.

Sounds to me as if this woman was just dying to create this kind of controversy.

[mockingbyrd]

And I would sue the pants off the airline.

The primary function of a woman's breats is the nuturing of her child. And society needs to get over it's problem with this. The flight was delayed, the child got hungry and the airline has the gall to kick the mother off? For feeding her child. Because the flight attended had a problem with it.

Anyone who has nursed knows that by 22 months (which still is a reasonable age to nurse, most doctors encourage it through 24 months minimum) a child is not going to remain covered with a blanket and the ensuing fights with the child are going to be more distracting than the actual act of nursing. The mother knew what would be the most discreet, her husband was sheilding her, she was sitting in the window seat in the second to last row.

This is discrimination pure and simple. The baby's head would have been covering significantly more that most low cut shirts or halter tops. But no one would ask those women to cover up. It's outrageous, and some one needs to find out what the heck this flight attendant's problem is.

[HitmanLV]

"It embarrassed me. That was my first reaction, which is a weird reaction for doing something so good for a child," Gillette said Monday.

You embarassed yourself, mommy. Hit the bricks.

[spunkets]

She was sitting next to the window and her husband was next to her in the isle seat. The seat backs are quite high limiting visibility from the front and back to zero. The only one's that could have seen her, are a few folks on the opposite side of the plane with their heads turned in a very significant and uncomfortable way. The only one that could clearly see was the whiney little prude stewardess that did the _itching in the first place. I think she should get 10% ea of both airline's stock.

[Old Professer]

All excretions are equal im my ideal world.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

She was asked to cover up and failed to do so.

That is not clear. What is clear is that she refused the offer of a blanket to cover up to the satisfaction of the airline.

In the second to last row next to a window, I'd like to know who it is that would be able to observe this egregiously offensive behavior.

I think the flight attendant and the airline messed up. They offered, she refused and that should have been it. If no stink was made the flight would have proceeded and no one would likely have been the wiser.

Why is common sense so uncommon?

[lepton]

A flight attendant tried to hand her a blanket and told her to cover up, Gillette said. She declined, telling the flight attendant she had a legal right to breast-feed her baby.

Those statements are not in conflict. She was not denied the right, and the attendant attempted to be accomodating.

[diamond6]

22 Months!!!!! My opinion, and it's only my opinion, 2 years of age is a little old for breast feeding.

[raybbr]

The Heathen:

[raybbr]

Gillette said she was seated in the second-to-last row, next to the window, when she began to breast-feed her daughter. Breast-feeding helps babies with the altitude changes through takeoff and landings, Gillette said. She said she was being discreet -- her husband was seated between her and the aisle -- and no part of her breast was showing.

Yep all those people craning their necks to see were so offended.

[Revolting cat!]

Sorry, Ms Gillette, if that is your real name, but they did look like two big bombs!

[Defiant]

said her attorney, Elizabeth Boepple

Rhymes with......

lthough Executive Director Robert Appel said he was barred by state law

OK, guys, are you doing this on purpose, or is God having some fun today?

[lastchance]

The problem wasn't the breastfeeding. The problem was carrying liquids in an unapproved container in amounts greater than allowed under TSA guidelines.

That being said, it sounds as if she was discreet, since her husband was between her and the aisle.

[nmh]

"A flight attendant tried to hand her a blanket and told her to cover up, Gillette said. She declined, telling the flight attendant she had a legal right to breast-feed her baby."

If she was so "discreet" then she wouldn't have been asked to "cover up". Refusing to "cover up" tells me she was exposing herself and an embarrassment. Glad she was kicked off. Next passengers will be wanting oral sex because they got the urge after a few cocktails.