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A mom is suing Delta Airlines after the airline allegedly didn’t allow her to pump breastmilk during a four-hour flight.
As a nursing mother, Geraghty depended on her stash of breast milk, as well as being able to pump, during the four-hour flight to John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, where she would be reunited with her newborn son.
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However, Geraghty alleges that the airline denied her boarding until she agreed to check or discard one of her two bags. Though she tried to advocate for her rights as a woman underDelta’s policies,which echo state and federal laws that exempt a breast pump as a personal item, the airline allegedly still wouldn’t let her on the plane.
In her lawsuit, Geraghty claims that Delta gave her a “draconian dilemma” for any mother: choose between “the vital sustenance for her son or the indispensable instrument for its procurement.”
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Geraghty claims her breastmilk soaked through her blouse in front of other passengers and co-workers, causing stares and whispers. When she left the plane and picked up her gate-checked bag, she says she found the breast pump “shattered in pieces.”
The new mom claims she suffered damage to personal property, as well as extreme physical pain and suffered emotional distress and anguish. She also claims she suffered from a reduction in breast milk production, which never fully recovered and made it more difficult to feed her son.
source: people.com
