I understand both sides of this. Beth, I totally see your point. Much better to drop your child off and step out of his or her life for good than to abuse the child in any way (although the abandonment IS a kind of abuse). Hopefully we as a society would then step in, but that doesn't always happen in reality. AND in reality the laws are set up to try to force the parents to keep or take back the child (reunification rather than best interests of the child). How awful would it be as a child to be dropped off somewhere and abandoned, and then have the state find your parent and force them to take you back. That is what can happen now.
We just simply are unprepared to take care of our children. We parents here fight so hard, for so long for almost ANY help. And there are parents who can't or won't fight that fight.
I don't know what the 30 day ppolicy will accomplish. Often the first 3- days are wonderful, it is about 6 weeks that colic sets in and can change everything. I don't have a real solution to propose though.