California Mom Starts Campaign Against United Airlines After Getting Shamed for Breastfeeding
A mother from California who was shamed for breastfeeding inside a United Airlines flight is starting a social media campaign against the Chicago-based company, per FOX News. Juliet Thomson revealed that a female passenger complained to the crew about her during a flight from Salt Lake City, Utah heading to LAX last Jan. 29.
Thomson was done breastfeeding her four-month-old daughter, Charlie, when the woman told one of the crew, "She's feeding her child on this plane and it's inappropriate. You need to go tell her to put some clothes on." The passenger even threatened that she will not fly with United Airlines again.
Minutes later, a female flight attendant approached Thomson and said that if she didn't mind covering up because one of the passengers was offended. According to Thomson, the flight attendant said, "I know that breastfeeding is natural. It's normal to do it, but this other passenger is really offended by it so if you wouldn't mind covering up, it seems your child is sleeping."
The incident did not end there as the female passenger continued to yell at United crew members, to the point of saying that breastfeeding was a disgusting thing to do in front of people. Security at the gate was able to tell the complainant and Thomson that there is no law against breastfeeding in public.
However, the 28-year-old mother felt that she was harassed, humiliated and attacked during the whole situation. Thomson told Joey Salads in an interview that she plans on taking legal actions because she feels that her rights as a mother were violated.
She started the social media campaign #MomsDontFlyUnited that points out how United's crews are ignorant of her rights as a mother.
"We, the passengers, are putting our lives into your hands when we fly with you. How can you then bend and twist the rules according to what suits you? You have a moral responsibility to us United," Thomson wrote on Instagram.
United Airlines and Skywest Airlines that operate the United Express flight released a statement via The Huffington Post that moms are always welcome in all of their flights and should be taken care of by their employees.
"Skywest is researching the circumstances of that flight to confirm whether the flight attendants efforts may have simply been to try to calm a difficult situation for Ms. Thomson," the statement said.
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