[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.

Gillette said that's when a flight attendant approached her, trying to hand her a blanket and directing her to cover up. Gillette said she told the attendant she was exercising her legal right to breast-feed, declining the blanket. That's when Gillette alleges the attendant told her, "You are offending me," and told her to cover up her daughter's head with the blanket.From here.

In your mischaracterization you missed the facts.

[Torie]

I am not sure what I missed. She refused the blanket. Someone claimed that using a blanket freaks a bab out, and that is a no-no. That sounds questionable to me, but on that one, I have no personal knowledge, and in fact no knowledge whatsoever. It sounds bogus. If it were not, and was in general true, there would be no such airline policy. That is the Occam's Razor conclusion.

[Kryptonite]

Telling the mom to cover up the nursing child's head with the airline's communal blanket, or get off the plane, is way over the line. I'd love to represent this woman and her family, and I'd encourage her to sue the airlines, not just file a discrimination complaint.

First they take away her ability to carry more than 4 oz. of liquid on the plane, then they get offended by the sight of her daughter's head because she's nursing. Sheesh.

[Shethink13]

Gillette said she told the attendant she was exercising her legal right to breast-feed, declining the blanket.

Legal right to breast-feed? What amendment does that one fall under?