Sunnyvale safe surrender

I live about half a block from Sunnyvale Fire Station No. 4—it’s where I voted in the June primary election, & I hear the engines several times a day.

Walking past one day, I noticed that it’s a “safe surrender” place:

I didn’t know there were such places, but it turns out that a number of states have designated such locations—usually fire stations, police stations or hospitals—where parents of newborns can surrender the baby for any reason without criminal charges being filed.

I had never thought about there being a need for such, uh, refuges, much less on a systematic level. But thinking about the battleground that control over a woman’s body has become in this country, I guess it seems inevitable.

Two thoughts:

I’m as surprised as surprised can be that Texas has such a program.

What happens to the babies once they’ve been safely surrendered? Because the political organizations that are most vocally anti-birth control are also the ones that would rather give corporations tax breaks than ensure healthcare & education for the nation’s children.