Chick-fil-A boots breast-feeding mom for nursing her baby girl

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A mother from Fargo, N. D. says she was kicked out of a Chick-fil-A over the weekend after she started breast-feeding her infant daughter.

"The owner came to our table where I was showing no more than the upper portion of my breast, barely more than what was visible in my shirt and asked me to cover,” Macy Hornung wrote on her Facebook page.

“I tried to explain that I couldn’t, because my baby refuses to be covered and she started harping about the children and men who can see my indecency and I need to cover," she went on.

"I said they could practice the simple art of looking away and tried to cite North Dakota breastfeeding laws. She told me if I chose not to cover, then she would have to ask me to leave, so I told her my review would reflect my experience and I would be relaying the experience in every local mommy group."

-snip-

The state's legislature passed a law in 2009 giving a woman the right to "breast-feed her child in any location, public or private, where the woman and child are otherwise authorized to be."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/chick-fil-a-boots-breast-feeding-mom-for-nursing-her-baby-girl/ar-AAuJyVR?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=edgsp

[Dr Hobbitstein]

1. To be fair, she requested cornflake fried chicken,

plus she brought her pitbull along.

[LAS14]

2. Go, girl! nt

[moriah]

3. I'd suggest a nurse-in...

.... but I'm not sure even paying for a lemonade to be a paying customer is money I'd want to put in their pockets.

[crazycatlady]

7. she paid for something so she's a paying customer

To be fair, their lemonade is more expensive than a soda of the same size. I wish I did not know that, but I can't resist their fries every now and then.

[CanonRay]

4. I'd suggest a lawsuit

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Sine the owner violated the law.

[left-of-center2012]

12. "Sine the owner viola the law"

I dated Viola back in the 1880's.

[rurallib]

5. "indecent"??? since when is nursing indecent???

fucking perverts

[Aristus]

6. Chik-Fil-A? I wish I ate there so I could boycott them.

Haven't eaten at one of their holier-than-thou-shit-slingers since I left Texas in 1982.

[MurrayDelph]

13. I'm with you there

There's now way for me to further boycott the company that I have been boycotting for years.

[MineralMan]

8. Oh that restaurant is in for it now...

[tblue37]

14. A year from now the owner will be filing for bank--if she lasts that long. nt

[Igel]

9. It'll go to court. If she sues.

Because the quote of the 2009 law is incomplete without the editor's bothering to indicate incompletely by use of ellipses:

"If the woman acts in a discreet and modest manner, a woman may breastfeed her child in any location, public or private, where the woman and child are otherwise authorized to be."

Seems odd that the part left out is precisely the objection.

I have no good definition for what ND law says is "discreet and modest manner". Perhaps it's "I recognize it when it happens", perhaps it's "community standards", perhaps it's entirely undefined or perhaps it's meticulously defined.

Or perhaps courts have already weighed in on the point. But it's a narrow legal one, for all the objections.

[Ms. Toad]

15. Perhaps because that's not part of the law?

I'm not sure what you're quoting, but here is the Wisconsin law:

253.165? Right to breast-feed. A mother may breast-feed her child in any public or private location where the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be. In such a location, no person may prohibit a mother from breast-feeding her child, direct a mother to move to a different location to breast-feed her child, direct a mother to cover her child or breast while breast-feeding, or otherwise restrict a mother from breast-feeding her child as provided in this section.

[petronius]

17. The OP, and the post you responded to, is about North Dakota

The ND law includes the caveat about being discreet an modest, apparently:

http://www.ndhealth.gov/breastfeeding/laws/state-laws/

http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/bill-text/JAGK0200.pdf

[Ms. Toad]

18. Thanks!

Wonder where I got Wisconsin from . . .

[Stinky The Clown]

10. Chick-fil-A - the restaurants owned and operated by religious nut jobs.

[MLAA]

11. These asses protect a fetus but want protect a hungry baby.

[lagomorph777]

16. Good Christian family values there.

perfectly ok to starve your baby so the manager won't have to ogle you.