By L.A. Williams Christian Action League February 10, 2023 The Senate on Thursday voted 44-0 to strengthen North Carolina’s Safe Surrender Law, making the state a safer place for newborns who find themselves in the care of an overwhelmed parent. First passed in 2001, the law already allowed a parent to surrender a baby up […]
Safe Surrender Law
N.C. House Passes Bills to Protect the Unborn and Newborn
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League May 7, 2021 Lawmakers took action this week on two bills (HB 453 and HB 473) aimed at protecting some of the state’s most vulnerable citizens — the unborn and the newborn. Passed by the House by a vote of 67-42 on Thursday after some emotional debate, the measure, […]
House Committee Takes-Up Revisions to Strengthen Safe Surrender Law
By M.H. Cavanaugh Christian Action League April 22, 2021 In July of last year, a woman walking her dog near Christ Community Church on Fairview Drive in Wilmington heard what sounded like an infant crying. The sound was coming from a trashcan. When she looked into the trash, she found a baby in a sealed, […]
CAL Legislative Wrap-Up for 2020
CAL StaffChristian Action LeagueAugust 28, 2020 It was Plato who once said, “Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods…And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and a fool.” The Christian Action League’s primary purpose as a public-policy organization is […]
Abandoned Babies Found Dead Could Have Been Saved by Safe Surrender Law
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League March 12, 2020 “Newborn found dead.” It’s among the saddest headlines imaginable. According to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, a person’s risk of homicide on his first day of life is 10 times greater than at any other time. But thanks to a Safe Surrender […]