Texas passed the Safe Haven law in 1999 after a rash of newborn abandonments and deaths in the Houston area.
– Every year newborn babies are abandoned across the country. Left in plastic bags and parking lots, or worse, the little ones wait for someone to come to their rescue.Surveillance video showed an 18-year-old woman pulling up behind a gas station, hopping out, then tossing a garbage bag into the dumpster. Inside the bag: a baby boy she’d just delivered.
“I just want them to know that they have options,” said Tiffani Butler, a media specialist for the agency.It allows a mother to legally give up her child at a fire station, hospital, or free-standing emergency room. If the baby is less than 60 days old and there are no signs of abuse, Rep. Morrison says supporters raised seed money for her to buy “safe haven” signs for fire stations, but eventually the money ran out and nonprofit groups took up the cause.
Daniel Lester, a supervisor at DFPS, says it can be difficult to get the message to those who need it most.
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