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child abandonment law


November 22, 2008

LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska on Friday closed a loophole in a controversial law that had allowed parents to abandon their children at hospitals.

The unicameral Legislature voted 43-5 to make abandonment legal only for infants up to 30 days old. Gov. Dave Heineman signed the emergency bill,....

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