Baby Moses law

noun

Etymology

A reference to the Biblical story, related in Exodus chapter 2, in which the baby Moses is abandoned by the river Nile and found by the pharaoh's daughter.

Definitions

  1. A statute that decriminalizes the leaving of (unharmed) infants with certain designated…

    A statute that decriminalizes the leaving of (unharmed) infants with certain designated private persons so that they become wards of the state.

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