Heart-wrenching Ads Promote "Safe Haven" Law
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Unwanted Babies Can Be Left at Hospital
(KCPW News) A trio of public service ads carry a solemn message for young women who have an unwanted birth. "No police, no questions" is the tag line advertising Utah's so-called "safe haven" law which allows a girl to anonymously leave her baby at a 24-hour hospital within three days of the infant's birth, without fear of prosecution.State Senator Patrice Arent sponsored the law in 2001 and hopes the ads will stop young women from abandoning their newborns in dumpsters, dresser drawers and mini-golf courses. All have happened in Utah previously. One of the ads shows a dumpster in an alley, the sound of a baby crying as the trash is emptied. A young woman crawls from behind the dumpster, baby in arms, having reconsidered her plan to dump the child. A team of local and Hollywood-based professionals produced the ads on largely donated time and materials. Ad agency Richter 7, Intermountain Healthcare and the Utah Hospital Association donated $14,000 dollars to complete the project.
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1. James Hamilton said:
It's a sorry state of affairs when more effort is put into telling women how to legally and anonymously abandon their children than informing them of all of the options available to them.
Safe Haven laws give new meaning to the phrase 'disposable society.'
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