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In July a new “safe haven” law took effect in Nebraska. According to a recent AFP story, confirmed by a similar story in USA Today, Nebraska is the last state in the US to pass such a “safe haven” law. These laws allow parents to anonymously abandon children in a hospital or police station without being prosecuted for any crime.
The intent is to allow any mother who dies not want a child to simply abandon the baby, with no repercussions.
This is, all things considered, a good idea. With a shortage of children available for adoption, these abandoned babies have an excellent chance at a good home and a happy life. And what this means is that in the US, abortion now does no more for the mother involved than allow her to avoid the trouble of carrying a child for nine months.
This much inconvenience to the mother is worth killing the child?
There is simply no excuse, with such a law on the books throughout the US, for abortion on demand.
We need such laws in Canada as well. There is an online petition here.
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I don't think this will have a big effect on abortion numbers.
The idea behind abortion is that the woman *does not want to give birth*. She does not want to know that somewhere, out there, there's a baby of hers that she's abandoned.
If adoption were such an attractive alternative, more girls would offer their babies. But it's not attractive to them.
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