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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.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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