ALL Hospitals are an Infant Safe Haven… No Blame! No Shame! No Names! Please don’t abandon your infant, take your baby to a hospital emergency room, no questions asked, no risk of prosecution. Your infant will be well taken care of and a good home will be found.
About Infant Safe Haven Laws 
Every state has a law in place to allow an unharmed infant to be given to the proper authorities, or persons, no questions asked. One~By~One works with South Carolina to promote these laws and increase public awareness that these options exist. They work together to save the lives of innocent infants and to protect the lives of their mothers. For laws specific to your state, see the map on our homepage.
The first safe-haven law was enacted in Texas in 1999. Since then, all U.S. states, as well as the District of Columbia, have passed safe-haven legislation or better known as “safe haven” laws, and every state has reported lives saved through the existence of these safe haven laws. We are unsure of the exact number of lives that have been saved but we know that in the past decade, these laws have saved well over 1,000 infants.
In the late 1990s there was a surge in infant abandonment’s, many resulting in the death of these innocent babies. In response to these incidents, a movement erupted to allow parents to relinquish custody of unharmed newborn infants without fear of prosecution. At the time, parents risked criminal prosecution for neglect or abandonment.
Infant Safe Haven Laws or baby abandonment laws were created to remove the potential for prosecution so long as children were given unharmed and given to proper authorities, or persons. Since the first law was adopted in Texas in 1999, each state across the US has enacted a Safe Haven law. While each state’s law varies, they all ensure the safety of newborn infants and the protection of parents who decide to properly relinquish their child.
Safe Haven Laws have been remarkably successful. Unfortunately, babies are still illegally and unsafely abandoned, in part because women do not know that they have another option. It is important that these laws are widely promoted and that women in need are informed that they are not alone. We need help to get the word out to everyone in this country to help save lives!
If you have any questions about how the Infant Safe Haven Laws in your state can impact you or someone you know?, If you would like to help or get involved in saving Infants? OR by donating to a great cause? Please Call One~by~One 1-877-828-9410.
