Breast-feeding advocates: Chick-fil-A flap exposes inadequacies of ND law

By Blake Gumprecht Today at 9:26 p.m.

Macy Hornung was asked to leave Fargo’s new Chick-fil-A restaurant for breast feeding her 7-month-old daughter, Ziggy, setting off a social media firestorm. David Samson / Forum News Service

FARGO — When the North Dakota Legislature in 2009 enacted a law allowing breast-feeding in public, it did something that only one other state did — it specified the circumstances under which breast-feeding is allowed.

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