Lynette Boggs-Perez | Baby Moses Law of Texas

Last week I had an opportunity to speak on a panel of the Christian Chamber of Commerce of San Antonio on the topic of adoption. One of the topics I had the opportunity to speak on was the Baby Moses Law of Texas.

The Baby Moses Law, also known as the Safe Haven Law, allows parents to legally abandon their children in their first 60 days of life with no questions asked. Yes, you read this correctly – with no questions asked. The purpose of the law is to provide a responsible option for distressed parents who see no alternative beyond infant abandonment.

The name of this law is rooted in the Biblical story of Moses whose mother protected him from a certain death at the hands of the Egyptians who had received orders to kill all male Hebrew infants. She put him in a basket made of “bulrushes” and placed it among the reeds by the river bank and he was saved, ironically, by one of the daughters of Pharaoh.

Texas passed the nation’s first Baby Moses law in 1999 after a sudden increase in deserted infants. Since the passage of the law signed by then-Governor George W. Bush, over one hundred babieshave been safely relinquished and each state has enacted similar legislation to reduce infant abandonment. Unfortunately, many parents are unaware of this option and still resort to more negligent means during their distress. My law firm is committed to inform the communities in which I serve with information they may not be familiar with. Whenever I speak on this topic, I’m amazed how few have heard of the option although it’s been a law in Texas for nearly 20 years.

The Texas Baby Moses Law:

Allows parents to legally abandon a child in the first 60 days of life after birth without fear of prosecution. The parent can use a third-party to take the child to the Baby Moses site. The parent is not required to be there for the transfer.
Allows a provider of Emergency Medical Services to take possession of an unwanted baby.
Allows courts of general jurisdiction to terminate the child/parent relationship if abandonedaccording to the stated rules.

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Lynette Boggs (born 1963) is a former Republican politician in Clark County, Nevada, and the winner of the Miss Oregon 1989 scholarship pageant.[1] She went by the name of Lynette Boggs McDonald for most of her political career and returned to her maiden name after a 2007 divorce. She remarried in 2017 and both personally and professionally is known as Lynette Boggs-Perez. Boggs is the sixth of eight children and the third to graduate from law school. In the seventh grade she was junior high president at her school in West Germany. Most of her childhood was spent in Germany and Italy. In high school, she was president of her sophomore, junior and senior classes. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1985 with a degree in business. She worked as director of marketing and admissions at the now-defunct Merritt Davis Business College in Eugene, Oregon. In 1989, she was crowned Miss Oregon and began a two-year journalism career

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