LoranaBartels (Universityof Canberra – School of Law and Justice) has posted Safe HavenLaws, Baby Hatches and Anonymous Hospital Birth: Examining Infant Abandonment,Neonaticide and Infanticide in Australia on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Thisarticle considers international responses to infant abandonment, neonaticideand infanticide in the context of the recent conviction of Keli Lane for themurder of her newborn daughter and the Children’s Protection (Lawful Surrenderof Newborn Child) Amendment Bill 2011 (SA). The article considers threeresponses currently in operation internationally: safe haven laws, babyhatches, and anonymous birth. Arguments about these models, includingeffectiveness, whether they target the “wrong” women, and the rights ofchildren to know their genetic origins, are examined.