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Alexis Martin Neely <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:37:26 +0000
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I have to say I am a bit disturbed by this woman's embarrasment and disgust.
  It's breastmilk, not urine.  You feed it to your baby, why is it
embarassing and disgusting to take a sip yourself???  Or, why didn't she
offer to feed it to the infant?

Alexis

>http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-airport-breast-milk0808aug08.story
>
>By LARRY McSHANE
>Associated Press Writer
>
>August 8, 2002, 5:44 PM EDT
>
>NEW YORK -- A woman says a security guard at Kennedy Airport forced her to
>drink from three bottles of her own breast milk to demonstrate the liquid
>posed no threat to other passengers.
>
>Elizabeth McGarry, 40, said the incident occurred April 2 as she was
>boarding a Delta flight for Miami with her infant daughter. She called it
>"embarrassing and disgusting."
>
>The federal agency in charge of post-Sept. 11 airline security said it is
>investigating. But the security guard's demand would have been within
>federal guidelines at the time. The policy has since been changed.
>
>Civil rights attorney Ronald Kuby, who fielded a call Wednesday from
>McGarry on his radio talk show, ridiculed the notion that anyone could
>have suspected the Long Island woman of being a terrorist.
>
>"The number of middle-aged, lactating white women who passed through
>al-Qaida training is probably negligible," he said.
>
>Kuby said the suburban woman is not looking to sue over the incident.
>
>"She's primarily concerned this doesn't happen to somebody else," Kuby
>said. "She does feel the people who did this were plain stupid, and should
>be punished in some way."
>
>McGarry and her daughter were pulled out of the boarding line for a random
>search. Guards examined her shoes, searched her baby and went through her
>diaper bag, Kuby said.
>
>"None of that bothered her," Kuby said. "Only when she was ordered to
>drink the breast milk did she fail to see the connection to stopping
>terrorism."
>
>The male guard was employed by a private company.
>
>At the time, screeners were permitted to have passengers drink from
>containers, said Transportation Security Administration spokesman
>Sebastian Warren. That policy was changed on June 24, he said.
>
>"In light of this unfortunate incident, the TSA is redoubling its efforts
>to ensure that both private-sector and federal screeners uniformly and
>consistently apply this policy," Warren said.



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