{"id":3449,"date":"2008-10-13T05:02:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T10:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3449"},"modified":"2008-10-13T05:02:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T10:02:44","slug":"note-to-bun-and-zam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3449","title":{"rendered":"Note To Bun And Zam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noooo, nooooo &#8211; of <em>course<\/em> our vacation plans in Omaha have <em>nothing <\/em>to do with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/US\/10\/08\/nebraska.safe.haven\/index.html\">this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0Frustrated parents are dumping their teenagers at Nebraska hospitals &#8212; even crossing state lines to do it &#8212; and the state Legislature has scheduled a special hearing to try to stem the tide&#8230;Nebraska&#8217;s &#8220;safe haven&#8221; law, intended to allow parents to anonymously hand over an infant to a hospital without being prosecuted, isn&#8217;t working out as planned.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 17 children relinquished since the law took effect in July, only four are younger than 10&#8230;On Tuesday, a 14-year-old girl from Council Bluffs, Iowa, was abandoned at Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, just across the Missouri River from Council Bluffs&#8230;&#8221;The few situations we&#8217;ve seen so far demonstrate the need for a change in Nebraska&#8217;s safe haven law,&#8221; Gov. Dave Heineman said in a statement Monday. &#8220;In the coming legislative session, I will advocate for changes that put the focus back on protecting an infant in danger. That should be our priority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All 50 states have safe haven laws, but only Nebraska&#8217;s lacks an age limit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0No, leave your IPod in Saint Paul.\u00a0 Really.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/10\/09\/nebraskas-safe-haven-law-works-too-well\/\">Ed<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->(<em>Of course <\/em>I&#8217;m just kidding)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noooo, nooooo &#8211; of course our vacation plans in Omaha have nothing to do with this story. \u00a0Frustrated parents are dumping their teenagers at Nebraska hospitals &#8212; even crossing state lines to do it &#8212; and the state Legislature has scheduled a special hearing to try to stem the tide&#8230;Nebraska&#8217;s &#8220;safe haven&#8221; law, intended to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}