Talk:Safe-haven law

Merger
I definitely agree that a merger should take place, but I unfortunately do not know how to do that. I hope someone will stop in and consider helping out by making the change. CallidoraBlack (talk) 21:11, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree, the content of "Secret Safe Place For Newborns" should be a subsection of this page. EmanWilm (talk) 01:56, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Some states (like Texas, who first made this law) refer to this as the Baby Moses law. Is there anyway we can have it redirected to here? 70.132.144.198 (talk) 05:23, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I have created a redirect for Baby Moses law. --Mysdaao talk 20:58, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Has there ever been a documented case of a father dropping off a baby at a safe haven?
If fathers are regularly dropping off babies at safe havens, the article should cite that. If fathers are not regularly dropping off babies at safe havens, the word mother should be used throughout the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.177.158.58 (talk) 22:55, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

The glaringly unnecessary use of gender-specific terms has been corrected. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.39.7.6 (talk) 11:45, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Content related comments moved from Wikidata
Hi, The Baby Moses Law was actually created by Ms. Johanna Holland in 1999 from Houston, Texas. The law begin when local news   reported infants  being  left  alone, in  restroom stalls, thrown in apartment trash cans, and on roadside  on a weekly basis for months. Ms.Holland began to reach out to city officials requesting for help in saving children lives but so many city officials in Houston told her they could not help. Please note; Ms.Holland never had anyone in her family or friends to abandon any  child, she just felt  that she need to do something to help  save these precious  children, and so she did, Help began when she contacted Congresswoman Shelia Jackson Lee office in Houston, and spoke to a male employee, she asked not to be recognized for her humanitarian efforts, because she felt it would be selfish and it was not about her but about the life of a child, Ms.Holland asked the  worker  that if Ms.Lee  could go on local news and ask  viewers to  drop off the unwanted babies at either a fire station or emergency room  to get checked out by a health care worker and after that the health care   doctor, could contact  Foster  care to pick up the children and get them  adopted by parents whom will love them,if the adults would do   this  no one would be  arrested,this is  or never have  been about sparing the  adult it is about  saving a   child life, and if it took  convincing an adult by  telling them this,it worked.. The following day Congresswoman Ms Lee held a news conference on local news stations  and delivered Ms.Holland message, Ms. Lee then reached out to Victoria Texas  Representative  on  Ms. Johanna Holland behalf and got her request passed as a state law  in Texas and  signed by Governor George W. Bush II. The Baby Moses name derived from Ms.Holland asking when a infant is delivered to the fire station or ER.. can the adults place the infants in a medium size basket with a blanket under the infant for comfort, like Moses in the Bible  mother had done  for him, This law is for children of all ages no  age limit, Saving a child life has always been the reason, and this is the  greatest award given to Ms. Johanna R. Holland resident  of Houston Texas,nor has she received a Proclamation from the State  of Texas- THIS INFORMATION IS TRUE AND  CAN BE VALIDATED BY  VICTORIA, TEXAS STATE REPRESENTATIVE -Posted in the talk page of Wikidata:Q7398435 by a user 2602:306:CF73:4D20:30A3:6EA0:B138:17FE - Cycn (talk) 07:50, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

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Specialized legal vocabulary
This page has language such as legal terms that is too specialized for the average reader. 208.103.115.82 (talk) 00:23, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Constitutionality section
Here, I have just made some changes of significant import to this section, including marking a key assertion there. This needs to be reviewed and expanded by someone who knows more about this that I do, with corrections to my changes and/or elsewhere as needed. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 12:52, 26 June 2022 (UTC)


 * I noted also that this section seemed to relate to a specific case (or cases) between federal/state/local "statutes" - I am not sure what this has to do with the main article, however personally I am disappointed no such progress was made to reconcile the attitude in approach.
 * Thewolfde (talk) 02:14, 2 February 2023 (UTC)