A baby’s right to life versus a parent’s duty to parent is at the heart of a legal battle over Baby Savers in South Africa. 
 
Government has ordered the shutdown of these life-saving boxes - built into the walls of places of safety, pregnancy centres and churches - arguing they encourage abandonment. 
 
But the research paints a very different picture. 
 
HOT1027’s Tara Penny takes a look …

A baby’s right to life versus a parent’s duty to parent is at the heart of a legal battle over Baby Savers in South Africa. Government has ordered the shutdown of these life-saving boxes - built into the walls of places of safety, pregnancy centres and churches - arguing they encourage abandonment. But the research paints a very different picture. HOT1027’s Tara Penny takes a look …

A baby’s right to life versus a parent’s duty to parent is at the heart of a legal battle over Baby Savers in South Africa. 
 
Government has ordered the shutdown of these life-saving boxes - built into the walls of places of safety, pregnancy centres and churches - arguing they encourage abandonment. 
 
But the research paints a very different picture. 
 
HOT1027’s Tara Penny takes a look …

Saving the Baby Savers: Episode 4: "The difference between life and death"

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Saving the Baby Savers: Episode 4: "The difference between life and death"