Baby Moses
... There are Baby Safe Haven Laws. These laws allow for a person with an unwanted baby or pregnancy to turn the baby over unharmed to a receiving organization without the threat of prosecution (Robyn’s Nest). ... If the child is alive and unharmed, though then shouldn’t you just be grateful that they turned the baby in instead of dumping him/her somewhere else? ... Would you like to have it on your conscious that a child died because you felt that if a mother just dropped her baby off somewhere then she should be prosecuted for it, even if that place was a hospital, or a police station? ... The laws are designed to give a mother who does not want her child and does not know the adoption process a place to bring her baby that is safe (MacCormack). ... The laws are designed to give a mother who does not want her child and does not know the adoption process a place to bring her baby that is safe (MacCormack). ... This is what Marley Elizabeth Greiner, Executive Chair of Bastard Nation had to say about it, “Safe Haven advocates found themselves in "7th Heaven" recently when the highly rated WB family-friendly series promoted anonymous baby dumping as a commonsense alternative to legal and informed relinquishment. ... ) Instead, after reading Safe Haven propaganda in the high school newspaper and checking with a cop, Simon opts for "legal abandonment" - what Safe Haven pushers quaintly call "non-bureaucratic relinquishment" - a baby dump. ... One can only imagine their disquiet if Mary or Lucy - or better yet, Ruthie in a couple of years - decided to dump a baby. ... Yet, despite the surfeit of moral uplift, we regular viewers of "7th Heaven" have come to know and love (or sneer at, as the case may be), Simon responds neither functionally nor responsibly when the magic baby appears. ... Like the bathwater, responsibility to oneself and others, accepting the consequences of ones actions - personal and family values that the Camdens have putatively imbued in Simon - is thrown out with the baby. ... Now it was already clear that she was not going to keep the baby and she didn’t want to turn in the baby herself, so that left only one option; she was going to dump the baby, as Ms. ... He found out about Safe Havens and when she had the baby he told her to take it to the hospital, but she informed him that she was leaving the baby in a telephone booth and he could take care of it. ... He took that baby to a “Safe Haven”, the county hospital. ... Greiner have preferred that he did tell someone and the girl run off, have the baby, and leave it to die? ... The girl chose not to keep her baby, as is her right, and Simon did what he felt was right and turned the child over at a hospital to ensure that the baby was safe. ... If you prosecute a mother for leaving her baby at a hospital for them to take care of, then you are leaving mothers who do not want their children with two choices, both of which are bad for the baby: one, they can raise the child and never show him/her the slightest inclining of love, or two, they can abandon the baby in the nearest dumpster, park, or alley.