Expectant mother kicked off cruise for being “too pregnant”
A pregnant cruise passenger claims she was kicked off a cruise by armed guards for being too pregnant to go on the trip.
Emily Jackson said she was ready to enjoy her holiday on a Disney cruise with her husband, two kids, parents and siblings, when staff approached her, reported the New York Post.
Emily said she was informed that she wasn’t allowed on the boat because she was 25 weeks pregnant – one week past the House of Mouse’s policy.
Emily, who had flown from St Louis for the trip, said her doctor had given her permission to travel and she was unaware of Disney’s policy.
Emily’s father tried to see if there was a way the family could still go on their vacation, but the situation quickly worsened.
Video footage that Emily posted to YouTube shows an armed guard telling her to “Wait outside. Step outside” as he escorted the family to the door.
Emily said she was horrified that the guard, who was carrying an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, was scaring her children by smirking and laughing.
“It was just terrible. They had the guy with a gun following us, they had the K9 unit,” she said.
Emily and her young two kids were instructed to wait outside in the heat for two hours while the crew located their luggage.
“I felt so bad because I felt like it was my fault that everybody couldn’t go,” Emily explained in the footage.
Emily said her issue with the cruise line was not because of the policy but “how they treated us after that point”.
“I’m mad because of how they treated me and my children … The fact that they felt they needed AR-15s to escort us out.”
Emily said Disney offered to reimburse their cruise tickets but not their flights to and from St Louis.
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