# Baby Moses law

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A statute that decriminalizes the leaving of (unharmed) infants with certain designated private persons so that they become wards of the state.

## Etymology
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.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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