TIL You can leagally drop your baby off at the fire station in all 50 states

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TIL You can leagally drop your baby off at the fire station in all 50 states - Lemmy.zip

Pretty wild! All states give you at least 30 days to dump your baby, no strings attached. Some states give you 60 days! I feel like more people should know about this! It seems like a highly under utilized ability.

Reasonable. Now who’s gonna bet that some dip shit in Washington makes it illegal because “mothers should face the consequences of their decisions” or some bullshit. 

Call me a cynical old bitch but when the US does something reasonable I always think “how they gonna fuck it up this time?”

Reasonable for the mother. The baby is rolling the dice.

Healthy babies are in high demand for adoption, so the offs are good, but not perfect, and its a terrible system to get stuck in, at least in my state.

Healthy babies are in high demand

Healthy white babies are in high demand.

True, if you aren’t white, the decision is gonna be a lot harder.