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Posted on 05/14/2026 11:20:06 AM PDT by Morgana
DENVER — Colorado Democrat Gov. Jared Polis has signed a rare pro-life measure into law, expanding the window in which mothers can surrender their newborns to safe havens from 72 hours after birth to 30 days.
The straightforward HB26-1024 expands the window during which women who decide they are unwilling or unable to raise a child can legally turn him or her over to a firefighter or hospital staffer. It takes effect August 12.
Colorado Safe Haven for Newborns, the organization that backed the change, credits the original 2000 law with saving 99 newborns, but suggests the original window was too narrow to prevent an additional 41 abandonment cases and 34 abandonment-related infant deaths. It notes that while every state has a safe haven law, Colorado was one of just six with such a narrow window.
“The first few days after childbirth are not calm or clear,” argued the bill’s lead sponsor, Republican state Rep. Rebecca Keltie. “They are intense. A mother’s body is flooded with hormones and often distressed.”
Like in Wisconsin, whose pro-abortion Democrat Gov. Tony Evers signed a similar law in March, the development is a rare pro-life exception for Colorado under Polis, which currently allows abortion for effectively any reason, empowering notorious (since-retired) late-term abortionist Warren Hern to set up shop in Boulder.
Colorado is currently under federal investigation for suspicion of coercing health providers into covering abortions, and in January was forced to pay $5.6 million to a pro-life medical clinic it targeted for offering abortion pill reversal.
The Colorado Safe Haven for Newborns website offers more information on Colorado’s safe haven rules, and where babies can be safely surrendered, plus a confidential crisis hotline for women in need.
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A positive step, I think.
With the way some of these young people are, 72 hours is not enough time for them to realize they can’t be parents. 30 days and they will catch on. At least they will realize there is a way out that is a win-win for them and the baby.
I was adopted.
You are here with us now, is that not a good thing?
(don’t answer that, you know we are all nuts)
I don’t know, maternal bonding occurs in the first few days. Doesn’t it do more harm than good if the baby gets abandoned after he or she has bonded with the mom? A legit question, not an argument.
Based on your request, I am withholding comment.
In any case, giving birth is the moral choice. But at some point, the parent(s) have to take responsibility for raising the child.
I heartily agree!
If the kids are really bratty, it should be extended to 12 years IMHO.
Some might enjoy this episode of Gunsmoke.
S19.E20 ∙ The Schoolmarm
Mon, Feb 25, 1974
After being raped, Dodge City school teacher Sarah Merkle struggles with the implications of being an unwed mother.
You're going to need a bigger box.
A life-saving extension.
His way of throwing his hat into the ring for 2028.
Thank you, Morgana, for keeping us up to date on so many of these important issues. I had no idea what Polis has been up to, other than to assume the worst.
Your dedication and faith is to be admired!
“In any case, giving birth is the moral choice. But at some point, the parent(s) have to take responsibility for raising the child.”
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Some parents will never accept responsibility to raise a child. Sometimes for good reasons, sometimes bad.
The question becomes who becomes parents for wards of the state? Orphans?
1. Adoptive parents? Hopefully loving and not abusive.
2. ‘The Government’, aka Hillary’s Village, foster care?
3. Society?
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Slippery slope? That’s my fear. If Polis and the commies make the argument that babies can be abandoned up to a month after birth, what will stop them from making the argument that they can also be aborted (killed) up to that time. I wouldn’t put it past them.
Still, this change is a good thing. And I believe God will spare no mercy on unrepentant baby-killers and abusers.
I’m trying to figure out why any limit is placed on a mother giving up a child that she does not want. 47 killers were executed in the US in 2025. Maybe if Mom, early on, had given them to somebody who would love and support them things might have turned out better for the executed person and for society in general.
Good news. If they would like to participate in an adoption the parents can choose the adoptive parents and can usually maintain some contact and/ or get updates if they so choose to do so.
More harm than good abandoned at a safe haven as opposed to in a dumpster or murdered and buried in the yard as some have done?
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