Rep. Lois Frankel says she was more than surprised when her dissent stood alone during the recent vote. I'm not ready yet to make it legal for someone to abandon their baby. We need to spend more time on how to prevent unwanted pregnancy. This is a Legislature that put no new money into family planning, fights about sex education, and well under-resources our child protection services. That's my beef with HB1901, too.
Good intentions are free.
Voting for this bill costs the state nothing. Again, if the choice is between a safe place and a garbage can, I say, create as many safe places as possible. The overwhelming majority of women who abandon babies are teens. Girls who wake up one morning with a secret. National Teen Pregnancy Prevention month and the Broward Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy kicks off on May 2 with workshops and speakers at the Broward Community College North Campus auditorium.