Fri Apr 1, 2022 – 3:14 pm EDT
CHICAGO (LifeSiteNews) — Southwest Airlines refused to allow a boy with autism board his flight out of fear he might take off his mask.
According to news agency WDJT, Megan Kitze-Ward turned to Facebook Live last Tuesday night to say that her 8-year-old son Max, who has autism, was not allowed to board a flight from O’Hare airport for a family vacation.
“We got to the gate, and he didn’t have a mask on, and I had a doctor’s note,” Kitze-Ward subsequently told CBS 58. “I also had a Covid test in my bag, and she (the gate attendant) said ‘Is he not wearing a mask?’ I said ‘No, I have a doctor’s note,’ and she said ‘Okay, well, I have to go show my supervisor.’”
Recounting her interactions with Southwest’s gate attendant, Kitze-Ward continued, “I said, ‘Okay, he’s got a mask on’, and she said, ‘It’s too late, you’ve already shown me doctor’s documentation.’”
“My doctor’s documentation says he may have trouble,” the mother said she told the attendant. “It doesn’t say he won’t wear a mask.”
When the family realized Southwest was not going to grant Max a mask exemption,
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