Posted on 01/25/2022 2:54:38 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Two lawmakers are proposing funding “baby boxes” in each of New Mexico’s 33 counties in an effort to increase options for parents who want to abandon their babies under the state’s existing safe haven law.
A bill to fund the initiative introduced by Sens. David Gallegos, a Republican, and Leo Jaramillo, a Democrat, would allocate around $30,000 for each of the boxes, which would be equipped with heat regulation and silent alarms.
The legislation would change New Mexico’s safe haven law, which currently allow parents of newborns to abandon their baby without liability by presenting it to a healthcare worker, law enforcement officer or first responder within 90 days of birth.
The proposal comes in response to a recent case in Hobbs, where police say an 18-year-old woman abandoned her baby in a dumpster.
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Can they drop off their ballot in these drop boxes as well?
” a recent case in Hobbs, where police say an 18-year-old woman abandoned her baby in a dumpster”
Unless Hobbs doesn’t have a medical clinic, a fire station, a police department, an all-night convenience store, etc., I don’t understand why a drop-box would have made a difference.
Because it would make the democrats feel better.
Ghoulish
So, they are allowed to use dumpsters now?
The proposal is from a Republican and a Democrat.
New Mexico has lots of big, mostly empty counties, but I don’t see how one drop box per county would be better than making sure there’s one fire station, police station, etc., per county that is manned 24/7.
My first thought when I read that headline was:
"Great, now it's taxpayer subsidized little coffins."
uggg...
I had to make an emergency landing years ago in Hobbs when I had engine failure coming from White Sands.
It’s probably the worst place in the southwest USA.
No, Democrats should continue to drop off their ballots in the dumpster behind the Sizzler.
Evil
I read the title and thought this must be the BB. I was wrong.
Just frakin’ sick.
Unfrakin’ real.
They should put the money into spaying/neutering ferral yutes.
Don’t be stupid.
This is a great idea. It helped a lot in NYC and other places. Usually fire stations had them, because they had EMTs and a lot of these infants, especially newborns, were born in bad circumstances and may not have been very healthy to begin with.
The children went to hospitals and then into places where they could be adopted after the city or whatever had searched for the parents. It’s much easier for infants than for older children to be adopted.
And it’s much easier for a scared teenage mother...or even an older woman...to drop off the baby than to go through “procedures.”
A lot of times the mothers come back and identify themselves anyway, after they’ve had time to think about it. But at least the baby is alive.
This has nothing to do with race, voting, or anything else. Just say a prayer for them.
So it’s better to abandon the child? Abort the child?
$200 for politician cages would be better.
I heard that some fire stations had baby boxes already. Of course, it’s a good idea as long as it’s manned 24/7. Not sure if many fire stations are like that.
Politicians just love to spend other people’s money on things that wouldn’t make the slightest bit of difference.
Hobbs is the diamond of that corner of the world by comparison to the bergs that surround it. It was once a phosphate mining hub in the midst of that oilfield. The subsurface is honeycombed with mined out tunnels that will eventually flow into the voids.
I have been in the mines there. It is interesting to see how the floor of the mined out areas of the salt creep up to meet the ceilings. You leave the searing heat of the surface only to find it even drier and hotter in the mines that lie 800 to 1400 feet down.
The area is supposedly still protected from oil and gas development but in the surrounding area productive zones lay just below the salt.
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