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WINDSOR, Ont. — Local politicians joined some 50 people who held a protest in Windsor on Saturday over the right of women to breastfeed in public.

The group, which included breastfeeding moms, their husbands, children and friends, gathered at a La Senza lingerie store.

Among those on hand were Essex County MP Jeff Watson and the wife of Windsor Mayor Eddie Francis.

The protest was in support of a London, Ont., mother who says she was humiliated by La Senza staff who took exception to her breastfeeding her seven-month-old-son at the Windsor store's checkout line in June.

Allison Loblaw said she was shocked when a clerk told her breastfeeding was not allowed in the store but she could use a changeroom in the back.

Dr. Michelle Prince, one of her supporters, said mothers have a ``legal, morale and ethical right'' to breastfeed in public. She added that there's nothing sexual about it.