The Abandoned Newborn Infant Act offers a protected legal alternative to unsafe infant abandonment. There are many new mothers who feel there is no where to turn because she simply can not take care of her child or other reasons that she feels and does not know how or who to ask for help.

An unharmed newborn up to 30 days old may be handed off to a staff member at a hospital, an emergency medical care facility, police station, firehouse, college/university police department, or Illinois State Police district headquarters with NO QUESTIONS ASKED, AND NO FEAR OF PROSECUTION.