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 d...
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