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Create a world where babies aren't abandoned.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Jane Eisner
Stories of infants abandoned by their mothers have haunted us ever since Yocheved placed her baby in a basket on the River Nile to escape a royal decree that the little boy be killed. We wish every baby Moses would be so generously rescued. We wish for the happy ending.
So it's understandable that, when faced with a few, heart-wrenching modern-day tales of abandoned babies, public officials would rush in to try to help. The trend began in Texas in 1999, after a dozen babies were abandoned in Houston in less than a year, and lawmakers adopted a "safe haven" law to encourage women to leave their unwanted babies in a hospital or other safe location.
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