In case you missed it, Alaska and Nebraska finally went over to the dark side and legalized baby dumping recently. But in the case of the Nebraska law, it’s fast-track child dumping. Child welfare workers and juvenile court judges are gonna love working with this one!
The law, outside of a two sentence intro, reads in full:
Section 1. No person shall be prosecuted for any crime based solely upon the act of leaving a child in the custody of an employee on duty at a hospital licensed by the State of Nebraska. The hospital shall promptly contact appropriate authorities to take custody of the child.
Note that any CHILD can be left at a hospital. No age limit. In other words, the Nebraska legislature just legalized child abandonment as long as it’s done “properly.”
Wanna test-drive your kid? Move to Nebraska! Terrible 2s? No problemo! How about that mouthy 13-year old son? Cheaper than Ritalin.
LB157 is the late Dr. Pierce’s fantasy of flexibility” of choice, “non-bureaucratic placement” and safe havens at any age.* Appropriately, Nebraska is Dr. Pierce’s home state. Lately, he’s been thunking his shoe in heaven (think Maine!) , but I heard a little chortle, too.
More on Nebraska later.
*Due to time constraints, I have unable to find Bill’s comment about edging up the age of SH kids, which he posted on alt.adoption. I’m still looking.
Ooh, those Dutch people that gave back their 7 yo adopted daughter should be made aware of this. Maybe in the future, they might want to know its okay to dump your kid in Nebraksa.
These laws should apply to all, right? Meaning adoptive parents can just dump their defective product if they wish as well?
I have to politely disagree with you on this particular post.
From what I read, this law is in effect to PREVENT baby dumping – as you call it – the reality is too many children are left in garbage cans, out in the cold, etc. when the parents feel they can’t parent.
-Barb
Hey, why limit it to “your kids”? The law sure doesn’t. Why not take the loud little pests next door to the hospital and drive away? After all, there are zero legal consequences.
Wow. I can’t believe there’s no age restriction…. that’s just nuts.
This is precisely the ‘mission creep’ we were concerned about back when such laws were first being proposed. There was always this weird ambiguity about ‘cut off age’.
Sane bastards understood where this could go and raised the objection ‘so 3 days is ok, but 4 days prosecutable? My guess is, they’ll just ‘stretch’ those age limits in the name of ‘saving babies’/ends justifies ANY means. How long before the age limits get dropped all together and it becomes ok for older kids to be dumped?’
To which we bastards were assured over and over again, no don’t worry, that’d NEVER happen.
Yeah well, welcome to your ‘never’, idiots. ‘Never’ has a new name- Nebraska.
Simply put: Nebraska has finally passed thier safe haven law and deserves congratulations!
BTW: ALL 50 STATES HAVE NOW PASSED SAFE HAVEN LAWS AND BASTARDETTE COULDN’T STOP A SINGLE ONE OF THEM!!
It’s now on to Canada eh! Australia, Japan and more!