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Brickbats

Brickbat: Difficult Labor

Charles Oliver | 1.3.2017 4:00 AM

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Police in the United Arab Emirates have arrested a maid from Somalia for giving birth out of wedlock. The baby is being held in the prison nursery where the mother is allowed to visit only to feed him.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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