{"id":63345,"date":"2015-05-07T11:27:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T15:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=63345"},"modified":"2015-05-08T01:47:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T05:47:43","slug":"got-phone-laptop-heres-can-help-save-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/got-phone-laptop-heres-can-help-save-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Got a phone or a laptop? Here’s how you can help save lives."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Mayo Clinic publishes an online pregnancy guide, and it includes a page describing<\/a> \u201cclassic symptoms of pregnancy\u201d–the signals a woman\u2019s body will use to tell her that she\u2019s pregnant.<\/p>\n

Except when it doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

That was Lance Bombardier Lynette Pearce\u2019s experience. The British soldier was in Afghanistan when, much to her surprise, she went into labor<\/a>. Although Pearce underwent a medical exam and passed a physical fitness test prior to deployment, her preborn child went unnoticed. Private Kayla Donnelly has a similar story.<\/a> The Irish native unexpectedly gave birth to her son, Josh, just two weeks after coming home from an Afghanistan tour.<\/p>\n

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Other women and girls do realize they’re carrying a child, but remain in denial. And for some, that can lead to very bad decisions: abandoned infants regularly turn up in recycling bins<\/a>, dumpsters<\/a>, and public bathrooms<\/a>. The result is often a dead child and a young woman behind bars.<\/p>\n

The good news is that desperate moms have an alternative. Across the country, \u201cSafe Haven Laws\u201d now permit newborns to be dropped off at hospitals, and at police and fire stations with no questions asked. The bad news? Most young people don\u2019t seem to know that.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, state governments haven\u2019t made<\/a> publicizing Safe Haven Laws a priority. And as recent deaths<\/a> have shown, too many members of Generations Y and Z just aren’t getting the message.<\/p>\n

In response, the group Baby Safe Haven<\/a> launched their “Friend to Friend” campaign. Initiated\u00a0last year, the program calls on youths to spread information about Safe Haven Laws among their peers. To help with that, they\u2019ve asked high school and college-aged women to serve as media spokespeople. Below you can see Kansas-based singer Regan Self <\/a>addressing changes to her state’s Safe Haven Law.<\/p>\n