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famfam posted...

where did they do that?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/06/us/roe-safe-haven-laws-newborns.html

All 50 states have safe haven laws meant to protect surrendering mothers from criminal charges. The first, known as the Baby Moses law, was passed in Texas in 1999, after a number of women abandoned infants in trash cans or dumpsters. But what began as a way to prevent the most extreme cases of child abuse has become a broader phenomenon, supported especially among the religious right, which heavily promotes adoption as an alternative to abortion.

Over the past five years, more than 12 states have passed laws allowing baby boxes or expanding safe haven options in other ways. And safe haven surrenders, experts in reproductive health and child welfare say, are likely to become more common after the Supreme Courts decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

During oral arguments in the case, Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization, Justice Amy Coney Barrett suggested that safe haven laws offered an alternative to abortion by allowing women to avoid the burdens of parenting. In the courts decision, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. cited safe haven laws as a modern development that, in the majoritys view, obviated the need for abortion rights.