A person holds a pamphlet about the Baby Moses Law during a press conference at San Antonio City Hall in 2022. The conference was held to announce a proposal to create so-called "baby boxes" where people can drop off infants anonymously.

If waste-collection workers in a Jersey Village neighborhood hadn't found a dead newborn baby in the trash this week, we might not be reminded of the tragedy of desperation.

It's unclear where the workers picked up the baby's body, but officials have narrowed it to a two-block area.

The mother's whereabouts are unknown and how she came to abandon her baby is also a mystery. An act of desperation? Probably.

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In the last few months, three babies have been abandoned in the Houston area. Each case is heartbreaking, especially since the tragedies could have been avoided had the mother known that the law may have been on her side.

As much as the media highlights Texas' Safe Haven law — also known as the Baby Moses law — in stories about the abandonment of newborn children, there are still parents........

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