The New York Times also admits that the legal status of the practice is subject to interpretation and those interpretations run the gamut from perfectly legal to totally illegal.

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What if Kal-El was sent away from Krypton to save him because of his illegal birth status, and the planet is dying but not totally gone yet?

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