Nebraska Law Should Stand

Daniel Polansky writes about the Nebraska Safe Haven Law in Splice Today

The whole story is chock-full of the kind of details that make comment almost superfluous. “Tysheema Brown drove from Georgia to leave her teenage son at an Omaha hospital.” My Lord, that’s an uncomfortable car ride. Wow. That’s 22 hours in an enclosed space with a woman who is planning to disown you. She continues, “Do not judge me as a parent. I love my son and my son knows that... There is just no help. There hasn't been any help.” Look, Ms. Brown, we let you legally abandon your child. I don't know what else you think the public owes you—gas money? An iTrip? Also, did you really need to give a quote? You didn't win the Super Bowl, you failed at the most fundamental task a human being can have. Slinking away in shame is the appropriate action here, to the extent that there could be an appropriate action after having given up your son to the ministrations of the state of Nebraska at the tender age of 15.

Honestly, I think world would have been a better place with the law intact. If some parent wants to get rid of their children, it could mean only two things:

1. The children will be better off away from those crappy parents.
2. The parents should not be burdened with such crappy children who deserves to be in juvenile system or something.

Dropping one's children off is a hard enough decision and I would not barr anyone who does that when they are that desperate. So even if what he says is true, the kids are better off without those parents anyway.