... parlance of the period. Adoption was rare because of the stigma attached to "bastards." Anyway, orphaned newborns had little chance of survival in the days before pasteurized milk and baby formula. Abortion, while legal during much of the 1800s, was expensive and dangerous. And, finally, neonaticide was easy to get away with because women delivered at home and police lacked the ... , the Mobile reporter who started A Secret Safe Place for Newborns. "Anyone can pass a law. But until you tell people about the program, it's nothing." Other jurisdictions have started imitating Mobile's formu...

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