Baby Moses law
A statute that decriminalizes the leaving of (unharmed) infants with certain designated private persons so that they become wards of the state.
Noun
- A statute that decriminalizes the leaving of (unharmed) infants with certain designated private persons so that they become wards of the state.
US
Origin
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.