Nebraska reevaluates safe-haven law that legalized child abandonment
When Nebraska’s legislature crafted its safe-haven law to protect newborns from abandonment, state lawmakers had the best intentions. But without an age limit set, those best intentions have opened the door to some 30 children being abandoned at Nebraskan hospitals ? and those “children” have often been teenagers, never newborns.
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