Breastfeeding Action Update
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GoogleWe 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
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ultra right wing conservative against public breastfeeding
Like you people really give a **** about a hungry childs needs, you hatefilled liberal LUNATIC FEMINIST only care about having this push-it-in-your-face-boobs attitude to be arrogant about it. You nurse-in wackos embarrass and discrace the ideal traditional breastfeeding mother who stays at home to raise there children while the husbund is at work. Thats what you wackjob activist are all about, is teaching society to be rude and disrespectful to one a nother and raising your breastfed children out to be TRASH AND LOWCLASS just like you. Activist militants need to be repelled from our society by a strong conservative society like the coalition of traditional values. Nurse-ins have no idea about raising there own children, nurse-in liberal LUNATIC mothers are only about making a bad example out of there children. When you public breastfeed, it just makes you nurse-ins a bunch of public breastfeeding attention sl*ts and wh*res with no life but to feel like your the center of the world for having children. Like we really give two sh*ts about your children, like we really are impressed by your procreations please :::eyes roles::: . Breastfeeding should be a private matter between the mother and child, it should not be shared with the rest of the public because then its pretty much making it MY BUSINESS and the rest of the publics THERE BUSINESS
Phew, i am SO glad i live in
Phew, 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.
ultra right wing conservative against public breastfeeding
This 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
give me a break!
Wow! 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
Morality ~ ? What?
Obscenity 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.
Breastfeeding on airplanes
I read the article about this case and something seems amiss to me.
I breastfed for 15 months. I breastfed on at least 6 flights, always when taking off and again when landing to relieve ear pressure for my son, and again when it was time. I support breastfeeding when/where a baby is hungry.
If I had a choice to hold up a blanket, which one can certainly do and give our infants plenty of room to breathe, or to leave an airplane, I'm sorry, but I would go with the blanket. To put my family out, to put my child in a stressful situation when there was a simple alternative, seems like a much worse choice than picking up a blanket. She even had her husband there to hold it up so it wasn't even over the baby.
This sounds suspiciously like someone trying to make a buck. Sorry if that offends anyone; that's how I read it.
I think the airline was wrong to ask her. I think the family was wrong to react that way. I would sign a petition if I knew she did the right thing. They didn't just kick her off; she chose to leave.
breastfeeding is not "slutty" behavior
There is a primal need for every animal and child to nurse from their mothers. Do we shield our eyes, our kid's eye or our husband's eye when we see a baby cow nursing from it's mother. No. We say something like "Oh! How sweet!"
I surround myself with other moms that feel the same way so we become all equally shocked when a mother is denied the opportunity to nurse.
I choose to breastfeed (2 kids) because it is the best choice for me and my family. I wasn't thinking that "Woo hoo! I can show my breasts off in public!" If that was my goal I'd be dressing like Britney Spears.
If someone wants to sneak a peak while I am nursing, I say go for it! My breasts hang low, they're lop-sided they leak and are streaked with stretch marks. So if someone finds them interesting to look at then I say they are the perverted ones because I definitely shouldn't be one to be flaunting my breasts to anyone but my nursing kids!
DFW Nurse in rescheduled for Dec. 1!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Breastfeeding Rally To Take Place At DFW Airport
Contacts:
Maria Pokluda Tel: 972-745-8523 Cell: 214-684-1275 Email: bpokluda@yahoo.com
Amy Philo Tel: 214-705-0169 Cell: 817-793-8028 Email: amyphilo@yahoo.com
Nursing mothers and their supporters will be gathering on Friday, December 1 at 10 AM, at the Delta ticket counter in Terminal E of DFW airport.
On November 21, mothers and other advocates took part in a nation-wide nurse-in at roughly 40 U.S. airports. Like all of the rallies across the country, the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport Nurse-in supported the right to breastfeed in all public and private locations, anywhere a mother and child might be, regardless of any issues of discretion. There was no formal national organization sponsoring this event, but amazingly, hundreds of mothers and other supporters turned out nation-wide. Unlike the rest of the nation, however, the supporters at the DFW Airport rally were harassed, insulted, and threatened with possible arrest by members of the DFW police (Department of Public Safety officers), and then asked to leave.
Though the right to breastfeed already exists, many people are unaware of this right, or may choose to challenge this right, or otherwise intimidate and cause discomfort for nursing moms, posing a great threat to the continuation and exclusivity of breastfeeding relationships and compromising the health of mothers and children, and the economic well-being of the society.
The goals of this Friday’s nurse-in are:
• To insist that the DFW Airport Police (DPS) apologize to the attendees of the November 21st rally for the unacceptable comments and threats, and provide documentation that training is being implemented to educate all DPS officers about the laws concerning breastfeeding in the state of Texas (specifically Texas Health And Safety Code Chapter 165 Section 002, which states “A mother is entitled to breastfeed her child in any location in which the mother is authorized to be,” as well as the definitions of indecent exposure and disorderly conduct). The DPS should ensure that in the future, officers will protect, rather than endanger breastfeeding relationships, by refraining from engaging in harassment of nursing moms and their children. The police should not approach breastfeeding mothers, but rather the mothers should be left alone.
• To hold Delta accountable for the removal of Emily Gillette from one of their flights and to insist that training procedures will be put into place to ensure that all staff at Delta and its subsidiaries will uphold and support a child’s right to breastfeed.
• To call for airlines to revisit their breastfeeding and transport of pumped breast milk policies, to support traveling families and working mothers who must travel for business and be separated from their children. Current policies about liquid items, which restrict the amount of pumped breast milk allowed on board with mothers who do not have their babies with them, compromise the health of babies who depend on pumped milk, and force mothers to dump precious breast milk that they have pumped while they were separated from their children. This situation is especially harmful for babies whose mothers already have difficulty pumping enough to meet the child’s needs during times of separation.
• To call for immediate passage of pending federal legislation that offers civil rights protection for breastfeeding women in the workplace, and new federal legislation to protect the right to breastfeed whenever and wherever mothers and their children are allowed to be, regardless of whether any part of the mother’s breast might be exposed during or incidental to the feeding. This legislation will clarify rights that already exist, and nullify any business policies or laws throughout the country that are already in place or might come into existence, which would infringe on a mother and child’s constitutional right to breastfeed (For example, Tennessee law protects a mother’s right to breastfeed a child in public only as long as the child is younger than 13 months of age).
The issue of breastfeeding rights goes far beyond a woman’s right to nurse - it also encompasses a basic human right for children, the right to eat and to receive comfort and nurturing at the breast.
The Nurse-ins have been coordinated by volunteers.
For more information about this event, contact Maria Pokluda or Amy Philo directly.