Breastfeeding Action Update
Posted November 22nd, 2006 by Kristin Rowe-FinkbeinerWe have exciting news on this front: You all are amazing! Last week in response to news that a ticket agent forced a mother off a Freedom Air flight run by Delta Air Lines for breastfeeding on-board, MomsRising put up a petition and you responded (and can still respond!). In less than a week the petition gathered over 20,000 signatures telling Delta Air Lines that breastfeeding mothers should be supported, as well as supporting the Breastfeeding Promotion Act before Congress. Over 20,000 signatures! Emails and calls from MomsRising members, as well as regular updates about the high number of petition signatures, pushed both Delta and Freedom Airlines to issue statements underscoring their commitment to allowing women to breastfeed onboard planes. Freedom Air also noted that the incident would serve as a training opportunity for all employees.
DELTA AIRLINES STATEMENT: “Delta Air Lines supports a mother’s right to breastfeed her baby onboard our aircraft. We regret the decision to remove the passenger from Flight 6160 as it was not in keeping with Delta’s high service standards, and we are coordinating with Freedom Airlines to ensure that they deliver the level of service we expect for all of our customers.”
NEXT STEPS: Right now, Delta Airlines is contemplating officially supporting the Breastfeeding Promotion Act which is currently before Congress. So please give Delta a call to thank them for taking a strong stand on behalf of breastfeeding mothers, and encourage Delta to actively support the Breastfeeding Promotion Act. Getting more signatures on the petition helps let our leaders know that citizen support is strong.
*To sign the petition (and ask friends to sign on), go to: http://www.momsrising.org/breastfeeding-petition
MomsRising is committed to making it possible for all mothers who want to breastfeed their children to be able to do so. In an effort to build a country that’s truly family-friendly, MomsRising supports policies and programs that allow mothers to make that choice—including policies like paid family leave and flexible work options.
Together we’re building a more family-friendly America. Thank you! – The MomsRising Team
15 Comments
January 14, 2007 at 6:42 am by AnonymousAnnie in CA,
You’re telling other people to be “decent” and cover up while nursing. Why don’t you be decent and drop the name calling. Calling women sluts isn’t very nice. I try to cover with the top of my shirt as best as I can but if some nipple shows, who cares? You do? Then don’t look!
Proud Breasfeeding Mom
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January 14, 2007 at 6:35 am by AnonymousWow! I can think of many things that are immoral and degrading but that are socially acceptable in the U.S. Breastfeeding is not one of them. Could you please explain exactly what is so indecent and rude about it???
Proud Breastfeeding Mom
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January 11, 2007 at 2:51 am by AnonymousPhew, i am SO glad i live in a country where it is acceptable to breastfeed in public, i am shocked and disgusted by some of these comments.
Breastfeeding is so important to the health of a baby, by making it dificult for women to feed their babies in public it would become the norm to bottle feed fomula instead. Breast milk is individually designed for the baby, it contains antibodies and is the best nutritional food a baby can get, how can anyone be disgusted by that?.
When you see a woman breastfeeding in public it’s not because she’s trying to get attention or expose herself or prove a point, it simply boils down to fufilling her babys’ need, food.
I’m afraid it’s something you guys are going to have to just get used to, it WILL be the social norm.
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January 17, 2007 at 10:12 pm by AnonymousThis public breastfeeding issue has nothing to do at all with nutrients and a screaming hungry baby ok!!!. This whole issue is about public indecent exposure, we cannot make nudity an acception to feed our children. Its Liberal lunatics like you who are miseducating a newer breed generation to be rude and disrespectful to one a nother which is what public breastfeeding is. No one is denying your rights to breastfeed, we are just asking for common curtiousy, respect and being polite to one a nothers compforts to take your breastfeeding habits to a bathroom or a car where it wont offend much of the world. When ignorant liberal LUNATICS like you make public indecent exposre the social norm such as public breastfeeding, you are making sociaty out to be a bunch of ignorant primative savages. These are the same ignorant free society people like you who will someday make urinating-defacating in public be the social norm
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December 10, 2006 at 11:18 am by AnonymousObscenity is completely abhorrent to me. But what would I call obscene?
Certainly not a woman breastfeeding in public. Cover upa? Why the hell should anyone breastfeeding cover up? To satisfy someone else’s sense of decency? The only reason a woman should cover up is to feel secure in herself and to allow her baby(ies) to have the comfort that coverings might give them.
There are no other reasons.
Morality is a deep muddy swamp that engulfs anyone who attempts to use it. The same people who demand mothers cover up are guilty of believing that the sight is for some reason best kept out of public view. They are the culprits, not the mothers.
It is natural for mothers to breast feed. If there is an absolute moral stance here, it is to allow them, nay, enable them, to do it.
There are societies where it is accepted as a norm for females to be bare-breasted – whether or not they are breast feeding.
If morals can be called in to support views that it should be against the law for mothers to breast feed, then morals can be called in to support anything you choose. Public exposure of dogs’ genitals. Public advertising designed to titillate. Public exposure of the crotch of mens’ pants, for they include an obvious adaptation to enable access to the penis.
Brassieresa, which enhance the female bosom.
All of these things are, in fact, laughable. To live in a society where there are people with such refined sensibilities that they cannot tolerate a breast feeding mother says as much about us as a man who rapes his wife and claims that it’s his right. A woman who deliberately titillates then is beaten because she denies a man his satisfaction. A child who is sent home from school because his hair is a strange color.
It is this strange super-moral attitude that prevents people from living with a degree of normality.
I long for the day when people will live more like people. It doesn’t seem likely as long as a supermoral man or woman can obtain some satisfaction under law by enforcing a moral rule upon others, yet denies its broad application to his or her own life.
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