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You're Wrong About

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The Death of a Baby in New Jersey

In 1999, after these dead and abandoned baby cases kind of had captured headlines for a while, we saw the first American safe haven law. You can take your baby to locations very based on states, but frequently they're like hospitals, fire stations, and you can anonymously surrender your baby. And so these laws didn't exist until 1999. Now all of these states have them on the books. But this was something that like ways of surrendering infants safely have existed since like the 14th century. We are making it harder and harder for women to access abortion and to access contraception. As much as we love the symbolic baby and we want to get babies born, we are increasingly unwilling to help

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