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CV NEWS FEED // Florida legislators are working to expand current Safe Haven policy in hopes of lowering the number of abortions in the state. All states have a Safe Haven policy that allows for a mother to anonymously surrender her newborn up for adoption at participating hospitals and EMS and fire stations. Barring any signs of abuse or neglect, there will be no questions asked and no criminal charges. The specifics of the policies vary by state. In Florida, the newborn can be surrendered up to seven days after birth. The new legislation would expand the current Safe Haven...

Two people have been arrested regarding an abandoned newborn baby girl — thought to be no older than three weeks — who was found by two men last week behind dumpsters in Mississippi. According to the Associated Press, police are investigating after the baby was found bundled in several pink and blue blankets in a car seat at about seven in the evening on January 24 behind dumpsters at the Grove of Cayce mobile home park, which is located near the state’s border with Tennessee. The baby was taken to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and is reported to be in...

A baby boy was found deceased in a dumpster Monday in Hollywood, Florida — and some media reports are subtly implying that the state’s abortion restrictions may be to blame, despite clear problems with this assumption. According to the Sun Sentinel, workers from a roofing company found the infant as they were throwing away debris. David Vasquez, the worker who found the body, told CBS News he saw a blue bag in the dumpster, and upon opening it saw the infant’s lifeless body. First responders later said they believe the infant may have been there for days. Like every state...

In one of those rare instances of The New York Times waking up and smelling the coffee, the paper reports that “safe haven laws” in New York and 46 other states – which allow mothers to legally and anonymously abandon their newborns at specific locations – have failed to reduce the number of mothers who kill their unwanted children. The Times quotes a forensic psychiatrist and assistant professor at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia explaining that mothers who kill their newborns “see it as a foreign object; they want it out and done with and gone.” The Stiletto does not...