News abounds about babies being left at the side of a river or the foot of a church door and in some cases, it ends up in a case of infanticide. The airport’s
restroom, at the most inconspicuous nook inside a passenger bus, or worse, inside trash bins. Babies are dumped everywhere. Or killed.. It was its first infant anonymously dropped off at one of its “baby box” safe surrender locations.
However, this was different. The baby wasn’t “dumped” just anywhere. It was left inside a Safe Haven baby box., declining to be more specific to protect anonymity. She said fire department staff was able to tend to the child in less than 90 seconds.in the country to be surrendered at one of more than 130 baby boxes the organization has established across nine states.. Twenty-two of these infants were found deceased. These should be treated as cases of infanticide.
The Safe Haven Laws allow a parent to anonymously relinquish an unharmed baby to a Safe Haven Provider and the parent will not be prosecutedThe law provides a distressed parent with a safe alternative and saves the life of a vulnerable infant.Every state has a Safe Haven law, which means there are ways for a mother or a father to carefully surrender an unharmed newborn baby without any risk of persecution.
From 1999 to 2021, at least 4,505 infants were surrendered through safe haven laws nationwide, according to the
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