Safe Place for Newborns law keeps infants safe Minnesota law
A person may anonymously leave a newborn with an employee of a safe place, provided the newborn:
- Is 7 days old or younger • Appears to be unharmed
- Is left by the mother or a person who has the mother’s permission.
The law defines a safe place as: • A hospital licensed under Minnesota Statutes, sections 144.50 to 144.56
- A health care clinic that provides urgent care medical services
- An ambulance service dispatched in response to a 911 telephone call from a mother, or a person with the mother’s permission, to relinquish a newborn. Within these conditions, safe place staff will not ask about or share any identifying information about the mother or the person leaving the newborn, nor will safe place staff call the police. Safe place staff may ask about the medical history of the mother, newborn and the newborn’s birth relatives.
Please click HERE for a Diocesan Resource Guide for Moms and Families in Need.
WALKING WITH MOMS IN NEED is a process through which Catholic parishes and communities "walk in the shoes" of local pregnant and parenting women in need.
Everyone should know how to help moms in difficult circumstances.
While not trying to turn Catholic parishes into pregnancy centers, we can support local pregnancy centers where they exist, and we can also find and share other resources with pregnant and parenting women.
The goal of this page is to become a source for all of the resources available to help women in our area. If you know a mom who needs help, we want this page to be a place to find it.
*To get involved, please contact Cathy Timmerman 218-969-2496 ctimmerman@proton.me or Jessica Koland 218-262-5541 jessica.koland@duluthcatholic.org.
