A new mother leaves her infant daughter in a safe place at a nurse's station in a hospital. This mother is protected from legal prosecution or with reduced legal prosecution by what legislation?
A. parens atriae
B. safe haven law
C. best interest of the child act
D. federal Child Abuse Amendments
E. abandoned infant law
B. safe haven law
By 2010, all 50 states had enacted some form of safe haven law, allowing abandonment at a fire station, police station, or hospital. Parens patriae is a legal doctrine that gives the state the authority to act in a child's best interest. When alternatives are available for child placement or for determining medical treatment for minor children, the common standard is the "best interest of the child." Under the federal Child Abuse Amendments, if the parents agree, physicians may legally withhold treatment, including food and water, from infants who are chronically and irreversibly comatose, will most certainly die and for whom treatment is considered futile, or would suffer inhumanely if treatment were provided.
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