What baby safe haven laws reveal about reproductive justice
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Professor Laurie Oaks was interviewed for The Current about her work on reproductive justice and baby safe haven laws.
“These laws were not originally proposed to replace abortion access,” said Oaks, a professor in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Feminist Studies. “Yet, they are now being used explicitly as a rationale to eliminate reproductive choice.” Her chapter in the new compendium “Fighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe v. Wade” (UC Press, 2024) examines how safe haven laws, originally framed as a solution for infant abandonment, have been referenced in discussions of abortion restrictions.