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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