Woman Stopped From Boarding Plane Because Of Breast Pump

A high profile member of an opposition party in British Columbia, Canada was stopped from boarding her plane at Vancouver airport because her breast pump was deemed a security threat.

Jenny Kwan was trying to fly to Kamloops for a caucus meeting, but security would not let her board when they found a breast milk pump and ice packs in her carry-on luggage.

Kwan says they found it 'suspicious' she had the pump but not her four-month-old baby, Renan. Security officials suggested she check the milk into baggage, but says she did not have enough time.

Kwan didn't tell security she was a politician, but told staff that she had brought her breast pumps on previous flights with no problems.

"I could not understand how a breast pump with its ice packs are potentially a weapon of mass destruction," she tells CTV News. "I said to the woman, 'come on, what do you think I'm going to do with this?'... and they said rules are rules."

A few months ago, a woman in Portland was also asked to dump out a litre of breast-milk that she was had in her carry-on baggage.

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