TYLER, Texas \u2014 Gov. Greg Abbott joined CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital Friday to dedicate a new Safe Haven Baby Box, providing an anonymous 24-hour surrender option for infants in East Texas.<\/p>\n
Texas is adding more safe places for parents to leave their newborns if they are in a crisis. This comes after state leaders updated the “Baby Moses Law” to give struggling families more options.<\/p>\n
The law says that parents can surrender unharmed infants under 60 days old at designated sites. Abbott praised the initiative as an “infrastructure of hope” for mothers in crisis.<\/p>\n
During the visit, Abbott also toured the hospital\u2019s new pediatric intensive care unit, the first facility of its type in the region.<\/p>\n
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The governor was accompanied by state Sen. Bryan Hughes, state Rep. Daniel Alders, and CHRISTUS Health leadership for the ceremony and blessing of the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas \u2014 Gov. Greg Abbott joined CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital Friday to dedicate a new Safe Haven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-266400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-texas","9":"tag-texas-headlines","10":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}