n January 16, 2024. the baby box company filed suit in Federal Court against the Miami-based traditional safe haven advocacy organization A Safe Haven for Newborns/Gloria Silverio Foundation, its founder and director Nick Silverio, the South Trail Fire Rescue District, and Amy Bollen, its public relations director, accursing them of slander, defamation, and “tortuous interference with contract or business.”…We are therefore dedicating a page to lawsuit coverage. It will include documents, news articles, commentary, and other material related to the case
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Baby Boxes in the U.S.
Information about laws, statistics, issues, and locations of baby boxes across the United States. Click on a state for more information.
US Baby Box Map
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Current State Legislation
Current legislation related to safe haven baby boxes in the United States, including bills to authorize installation of the devices.
US Legislation 2025
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Featured Essays and Resources
Why is Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc So Afraid of Adoptees?
Class Bastard—the Adopted—to the minds of the baby box tycoonery poses some kind of existential threat to their evangelical stampede through America to normalize baby-abandonment-by-box-in-the-wall.
Sex Outside of Marriage? You’re a Piece of Chewed Up Gum that Nobody Wants. A Message from Pam Stenzel, Safe Haven Baby Box Hotline Coordinator/Counselor
Her bottom line preached for three decades: if you have sex outside of marriage you will pay for it for the rest of your life, physically mentally, and emotionally…he compared teen girls who had had sex to a nasty piece of chewed-up gum and an old shoe. Who would want them? Twenty years later it’s still her message.
Abortion, Adoption, Safe Havens, and Reproductive Justice
It’s all theater. For baby box pushers, adoptees and “desperate mothers” are nothing more than dehumanized props used to create a utopian abortion-free world.
What Critics Say About Baby Boxes
Baby Boxes do not empower women and certainly not their abandoned children as they grow up. They trivialize pregnancy, commodify babies, and maintain adoption secrets and lies.
Latest News and Information
Joint Action Alert: Connecticut and Alaska Baby Abandonment Box Hearings, February 20, 2025
Connecticut and Alaska have Safe Haven Baby Box bill hearings scheduled for February 20, 2025. We need your help now…Safe Haven Baby Boxes are a direct attack on the adoptee rights movement and bastards who speak their own truth. This year, as you will see by the 2025 Legislation page, the country is being blitzkrieged with baby box bills. Currently there are 316 boxes in the US. 55 newborns have been caught and erased from their own histories and birth records. The adoptee voice has been virtually ignored by baby abandonment box promotors who say that adopted people who oppose are “mentally unstable.” Let your voice be heard now and show them who is really unstable.
Oregon: Joint Bastard Nation/Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes Testimony/ Letter in Opposition to HB2901–Safe Haven Baby Box Bill
Oregon is by far, the gold standard for adoptee equal rights in US. The Oregon adopted automatically expect to be treated with dignity and respect.
It is with great alarm then that legislators are proposing—and apparently making it a priority– to take a backward step and promote the secretization of adoptees, their records and histories with the introduction HB2901. This bill authorizes the use of “newborn safety device,” popularly known as “Safe Haven Baby Boxes” that allow parents—that is, overwhelmingly “mothers in crisis”– to anonymously stick their infant up to 60 days of age, in a box in a wall and walk away
What’s the San Antonio Safe Haven Baby Box Installation Holdup? We Can Tell You.
In the Fall of 2023 SA jumped on the baby box bandwagon. City Council not only passed an ordinance to legalize box use in the city–but to appropriate $438,000 to pay for lease, installation, “education” and promotion. After year and a half, no boxes have been installed, though they were promised by the end of 2024…
Taxpayers Increasingly Paying for “Free” Baby Abandonment Boxes. SHBB Inc Continues to Lie about Funding
If the Missouri and Wyoming bills pass this means that a possible $2,211,000 in taxpayer money has been allocated–ie made available– to pay for baby abandonment boxes that are marketed nationwide to lawmakers and the public as “free.”
Missouri Taxpayers Slated to Become Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc’s Newest Cash Cow
On December 2, 2024, State Representative Jim Murphy, the Godfather of the Missouri baby box law, pre-filed HB 101 (bill page here) to create a Safe Place for Newborns Fund consisting of money appropriated by the state legislature solely to pay for the installation of baby boxes-
Angelika’s Corner
How Dare They! “Mothers of Loss (to Adoption)” Drops Shitbomb on SHBB Inc’s FB page. So Far, Gets Away with It
…now comes the wonderfully blatant shitbomb dropped by Mothers of Loss (to adoption) a few hours ago, politely camouflaged as a question we all know the answer to. So far it has passed the resident SHBB Inc FB censor. (The SHBB Inc reality show verifies that a staff member vets comments for negativity. ) Maybe she is off on a Thanksgiving holiday.
Baby Box Adoption Surrenders are Dignified?
What in the world is “dignified” for a mother sneaking around in the middle of the night and sticking a secret baby into a hidy-hole at the fire station and running off? And what kind of dignity does that baby have being ditched, possibly naked (sometimes with a placenta hanging on it or covered in God knows what) with maybe not even a blanket–and certainly no name or history?
No! Hundreds of Babies Have NOT Been “Saved” in Safe Haven Baby Boxes in Indiana
MEOW!!!!! Even disregarding the disputable “saved” narrative, the idea of hundreds of Indiana babies captured by Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc is an out-of-and-out lie that demands retraction.
Jasper, Alabama: Baby Box Needed for Homeless Moms
Several times a month I read Safe Haven Baby Box proponents declare in the news that boxes and anonymous legal abandonment are needed by “the homeless.” What the hell? Is baby abandonment –and yes, that is exactly what safe haven baby boxes promote despite the nicey-nice claim that it’s not abandonment since boxed babies are “placed into ‘loving hands'” or some such drivel–a boostrap for the homeless? I think not. It’s a boot in the head.
Is Normal Adoption Relinquishment Legal in Texas?
Two weeks ago I wrote a short piece about confusing headlines (and news stories) that suggest to the uninformed that traditional safe haven laws and baby boxes are the only way a parent can relinquish a child for adoption…We got the same rubbish during today’s baby box blessing in Lubbock, Texas.
Misleading Headlines about Safe Haven Laws
To make it worse, the article fails to mention normal adoption practices, as if safe haven abandonment is the only way adoptions can be done.
Scenes from the Asylum
SHBB Inc Box Blessing Manipulates Small Children that It’s OK to Legally Abandon Babies in a Box
I have no idea who the little blond girl is, but you will see her standing on her tippy-toes dropping a doll, that looks like her, in the box
Anonymity Matters, Adoptees Don’t: A Short Rant on Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc Images
Does this image make you sick to your stomach, grind your teeth, go for the nearest ax handle?
Safe Haven Baby Boxes = Prosperity???
How in the world does a baby abandonment box “reinforce community prosperity,” unless one is crass enough to suggest that local Poors donate their newborns to local Privilegeds in order to create a higher economic lifestyle for themselves? (It’s not like we haven’t heard that one before!
Would You Box Your Your Baby with This Person? Part 2
By the end of the evening, SHBB Inc had gotten over 1 million followers on TikTok, which says something about the rotting of the American mind. Here is Mrs. Kelsey’s reaction to breaking 1 million and that rot.
Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc Reminds Us Again: Adoptees Don’t Matter. A Disjointed Diatribe
In other words, (we already know this!) boxed babies, and by extension, adopted people, aren’t part of the Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc equation and plan other than to serve as window dressing. We are things to be dealt with, to be fixed, to be objectified and fetishized, and then shuffled off to Buffalo reborn invisible and silent. The baby box gangbangers clearly put a lot of work into making us look irrelevant
Safe Haven Baby Boxes’ Monica Kelsey: F-Bombing One F at a Time
My favorite Kelsey throwaway is “I love Jesus, but I like to cuss.” Her truism is emblazoned on selected SHBB Inc merch including fund-raising tumblers. It’s amusing since at about the same frequency as her “cussing” she reminds us that she is doing God’s work and that Jesus walks beside her. She has regular convos with both.