BURLINGTON, Vt. -- A Vermont woman is organizing a national "nurse-in" to protest an airline's treatment of a breast-feeding passenger.

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Chelsea Clark said she's using Web message boards to organize a national protest Tuesday at Delta Airlines counters across the country.

What happened to Emily Gillette, of Santa Fe, N.M., has prompted an "out-swell of outrage," Clark said.

The nursing mother was removed from a Freedom Airlines plane last month at Vermont's Burlington International Airport after refusing a flight attendant's request to cover her baby with a blanket while nursing.

Gillette said the flight she was on was delayed for three hours, but appeared to be preparing for takeoff on Oct. 13 from Burlington International Airport when she decided to breast-feed her child. She said she was being discreet and no part of her breast was showing. She and her husband said that a Freedom Airlines flight attendant told Gillette that she was offended, and then she and her husband were asked to leave the plane.

A similar protest, in which mothers sat on the floor near the Delta Airlines counter, breast-fed their babies and held signs, took place at the Burlington International Airport last week.

Freedom Airlines, which is operated by Delta, said the flight attendant who ordered the nursing mother off the plane has since been disciplined.

A spokesman for Freedom Airlines said the pilot apologized and asked Gillette and her family to get back on the plane but Gillette said that never happened.

Gillette has filed a complaint with the Vermont Human Rights Commission.