From the Houston Chronicle:
In the last few months, three babies have been abandoned in the Houston area. Each case is heartbreaking, especially since the tragedies could have been avoided had the mother known that the law may have been on her side.
As much as the media highlights Texas’ Safe Haven law — also known as the Baby Moses law — in stories about the abandonment of newborn children, there are still parents who may not know there’s a safe and better option than leaving a baby in a trash can, backpack or by the side of the road. The law allows parents to leave infants 60 days or younger with no sign of abuse at designated safe places, like fire stations or hospital emergency centers, without fear of prosecution.
No questions asked.
I am not so sure that if the parent had known about the law if they would have done anything different.
I imagine that the law prohibiting abortions has something to do with the increase of babies abandoned in dumpsters.
It would not surprise me if Abbott’s new executive order asking about immigration status increases the number of babies that are abandoned and never found.
Why would people present themselves knowing that they will know who placed that child in front of a fire station with cameras that monitor?
Sometimes I think people write about a lot of things that they know nothing about. They went to books to read about it or lived in “poverty” while not being poor, just like JD Vance writing about being poor, or all those other writers that did like wise.
I could not help but laugh when I read the following:
Circumstances are rarely known in abandonment cases. A victim of rape, domestic violence, incest? The reality is that parents are often scared to death to talk to anyone.
Maybe one of them is reading this.
Why did I laugh? Because I can’t picture a mother who abandons a baby like that reading an article that one has get passed a pay wall.