Earlier this month a U of I student was charged with first degree murder after having turned herself in to authorities with a dead infant in her backpack.
Advocates of what's called the 'Baby Safe Haven' law are trying to get the word out that new mothers who feel they can't care for their child have an option to relinquish their newborn with no consequence.
Every state in the country has a law like this. It passed in Illinois in 2001, and since then 112 babies have been adopted to new families as a result.
The law says that a parent can bring a child to a hospital, police or fire station within 30 days of birth and not have to fear arrest or prosecution.
Aidan Jane Millar-Nicholson's birth mother made that decision eight years ago.
"I obviously wouldn't be here today if my (birth) mom hadn't made the right choice and dropped me off at the hospital," Millar-Nicholson said.
Millar-Nicholson recently joined her adoptive mother Lori at the statehouse to talk to legislators and journalists.
"It was amazing to me today how many people still don't know about the safe-haven law," Millar-Nicholson said.
Per the law - babies relinquished must be dropped off unharmed and given to an attendant.