Is breastfeeding in public a mum's right?

LAST month, a nursing mother was thrown off a plane about to take off in Vermont because she refused to cover up while breastfeeding her daughter.

"I'm not doing anything wrong and I will not cover up," Emily Gillette said, after a flight attendant offered her a blanket to cover herself.

In protest against Gillette's treatment, nursing mums across the US are now staging rolling breastfeeding sit-ins at the airline's counters, causing a huge embarrassment for the company (Mums begin 'lactivism' after airline bans breastfeeding).

Gillette has filed a complaint claiming the airline, Delta, has violated a state law that allows women to breastfeed "in any place of public accommodation".

The airline said breastfeeding on a plane was OK, as long as it was done discreetly.

Do you think the airline's actions were justified, or should women be able to breastfeed wherever and whenever they choose?

Source : News.com.au