Giving Up Baby: Safe Haven Laws, Motherhood, and Reproductive Justice

by Laury Oaks

Book Overview

"Baby safe haven" laws, which allow a parent to relinquish a newborn baby legally and anonymously at a specified institutional location--such as a hospital or fire station--were established in every state between 1999 and 2009. Promoted during a time of heated public debate over policies on abortion, sex education, teen pregnancy, adoption, welfare, immigrant reproduction, and child abuse, safe haven laws were passed by the majority of states with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479806366
• ISBN13: 9781479806362
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"