Just as Nebraska’s
uniquely forgiving Safe Haven law is on the verge of being amended, a young
mother makes a case for keeping it just the way it is. Currently, it’s legal to
abandon children up to 18 years of age at a hospital. But since the law went
into affect in July, so many teenagers (and zero babies) have been abandoned at
hospitals that Nebraskan legislators are looking to revise the law so that it’s
only applicable to infants who are three days old or younger.
But here’s an important use of the country’s only teen-inclusive
safe-haven law that many hadn’t foreseen.
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