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‘BABY SAVER’ FACILITIES: DRAFT DA BILL OUT FOR COMMENT
- 17 October 2025
- Social Development
- SA Legal Academy
The DA’s Alexandra Abrahams has announced her intention to table a Bill in Parliament that – if processed, enacted and operationalised – would give legal recognition to and regulate ‘baby savers’ and ‘baby safe havens’. This is according to the procedurally required pre-tabling explanatory summary, which also calls for input by 16 November 2025.
It is envisaged that the proposed new piece of legislation regulate would also exclude the safe relinquishment of a newborn baby at such a facility from the principal statute’s definition of ‘abandoned child’ – clarifying that safe relinquishing a newborn would not constitute a crime.
However, this would not indemnify anyone relinquishing a newborn baby to a safe haven from the consequences of having committed an offence against that baby before its safe relinquishment.
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