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. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html