COLUMBUS (AP) — A clothing chain has apologized for store employees in Ohio who told a nursing mother to go to a dressing room to continue breast-feeding.

A 2005 Ohio law gives women legal protections to breast-feed in public.

Bonnie Morris says she was being discreet as she nursed her baby Tuesday while shopping at an American Eagle Outfitters store in Columbus.

In this July 27 photo, Bonnie Morris holds her 10-month-old son Jonah at their home in Chillicothe, Ohio. Morris says sales clerks at American Eagle Outfitters at Easton, where she works, broke Ohio law when they tried to stop her from breastfeeding Jonah at the store. The clothing chain acknowledged that the law gives women legal protections to breast-feed in public and apologized for store employees who told Morris to go to a dressing room to continue nursing Jonah. (AP Photo/ The Columbus Dispatch, Octavian Cantilli)

She says two clerks suggested that she go to the changing room. Morris says one said in an urgent tone that the store recommended the move and ordered her to come along.

Spokeswoman Jani Strand with Pittsburgh-based American Eagle called Morris Wednesday to apologize. Strand says the workers were trying to offer Morris privacy but says the chain will give a "refresher" on breast-feeding laws.