Baby surrender would be made easier by House bill

BOSTON – Parents wishing to surrender a newborn under the state's baby safe-haven law could arrange a meeting to give an infant to an emergency responder by calling 911 under a bill passed Thursday by the Massachusetts House of Representatives that would amend the statute. Passed in 2004, the Safe Haven Act lets parents surrender babies who are seven days old or younger at a hospital, police department or manned fire station. The babies are then taken into Department of Children and Families cu

BOSTON – Parents wishing to surrender a newborn under the state's baby safe-haven law could arrange a meeting to give an infant to an emergency responder by calling 911 under a bill passed Thursday by the Massachusetts House of Representatives that would amend the statute. Passed in 2004, the Safe Haven Act lets parents surrender babies who are seven days old or younger at a hospital, police department or manned fire station. The babies are then taken into Department of Children and Families cu…