The circumstances that could have led a woman to abandon her newborn many years ago can be far more complicated than a simple DNA match can reveal, according to civil rights advocates, doctors and defense lawyers. They say the new technique is raising questions that the courts are not yet prepared to answer.

Some of the women who have been identified in these Baby Doe cases say they did not know they were pregnant until they went into labor. Some of the women who have been charged told the police their baby was stillborn. Determining the truth of the matter can be difficult.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/forensic-genetic-geneology-dna-babies.html

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