One day a journalist named Suzanne Hobbs, from Idaho Falls, Idaho, was on the scene as police investigated a crime. .Suzanne approached the police officers crowded around a dumpster. She glanced inside and something caught her eye. It was a dead baby. After interviewing the baby’s Grandfather Suzanne realized that there wasn’t a Safe Haven law in Idaho like in other states. This teen’s father thought that if there was such a law his grandchild would have lived. Suzanne was so impressed by his remarks that she decided to make a law in Idaho that would prevent other children from coming to this fate. Thus the Safe Haven Law was born.

The Safe Haven Law states that a mother who has given birth, and doesn’t want the child, only needs to take the child to a safe place. A safe place in this case includes, but is not limited to such places as; fire departments, hospitals or police stations. Once the mother is at that safe place, with the child, she needs to hand the child over to someone who works there. Once the child is in that worker’s arms, the teenage girl states that she is the mother who doesn’t want this child. After that, the mother can leave and there are no questions asked by the worker. After these children are handed over to workers, they then get adopted by a willing and qualified family.

This law, when acted upon by the mother, saves lives. It saves the life of the baby who otherwise could be murdered. Also it saves the woman’s conscience. If the woman had killed that child her conscience would be screaming out. If it got really bad she might even commit suicide. This law for sure saves the life of the baby and even maybe the mother’s life as well. Safe Haven does achieve its main goal of saving babies lives.

Though this is a great law that will save lives, it does have some unintended consequences. Some girls might have too much pride to admit they are the mother, and thus not take the child to a safe place. Other girls might be too shy to go and talk to workers. Yet other teens, instead of giving the child up for adoption, keep the child due to pride. This would allow the child to live, which is the goal of the law, but would cause them to not have the best possible life. These are only a few unintended consequences of this law.

In all aspects people are made better by this law. The child does not have to be found in a dumpster, the mother can give the child a good home and the adopting family has a baby they can love. There is no third party or otherwise that doesn’t benefit from this law being acted upon by mothers with unwanted children.

This law is not restrictive in any way. The mother can get rid of the child she doesn’t want and the child can have a good home. I do not see any other law that would be less restrictive. In fact, I can think of many amendments to this law that would make it more restrictive than it already is now.

Safe Haven is already being acted upon in Idaho. There have been 13 mothers who have had unwanted pregnancies and used this law to better themselves as well as their child’s life. Up to this point all of those children have been adopted into qualified homes that will love the children unconditionally. The journalist who first wanted this law to be enacted now has adopted one of these safe haven children. She sees the effects of this law every time she looks into her daughter’s beautiful eyes.