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Safe Haven Baby Boxes are dangerous, unethical, anti-family, and anti-adoptee. Here's why.
MAP: BABY BOXES IN THE UNITED STATES
Information about laws, statistics, issues, and locations of baby boxes across the United States. Click on a state for more information.Indiana has installed 100 baby boxes in the state, by far the most of any state. Read more about Indiana.
Arkansas currently has 17 safe haven baby boxes in the state. Read more about Arkansas.
Florida currently has 1 safe haven baby box in the state, installed in Ocala without specific state authorizing law. Read more about Florida.
Ohio currently has 8 safe haven baby boxes in the state. Read more about Ohio.
New Mexico currently has 2 safe haven baby boxes in the state, both installed without specific state authorizing law. Read more about New Mexico.
Kentucky currently has 18 safe haven baby boxes in the state. Read more about Kentucky.
State law in Louisiana authorizes installation of baby boxes. None have been installed to date. Read more about Louisiana.
Virginia enacted a law in 2022 allowing installation of safe haven baby boxes. None have been installed to date.
State law in Maine authorizes installation of baby boxes. None have been installed to date. Read more about Maine.
Oklahoma currently has one baby box installed in the state. Read more about Oklahoma.
Pennsylvania currently has one baby box in the state. Read more about Pennsylvania.
State law in Arizona does not specifically address safe haven baby boxes but six have been installed in hospitals across the state. Read more about Arizona.
State law in California does not specifically address safe haven baby boxes but allegedly one has allegedly been installed in a hospital wall in Pomona. Read more about California.
There are no Baby Boxes in Texas nor is there a state law authorizing installation. Read more about Texas.
Kansas enacted a law in 2023 to authorize installation of baby boxes. None have yet been installed.
There are no Baby Boxes in Colorado nor is there a state law authorizing installation.
There are no Baby Boxes in Oregon nor is there a state law authorizing installation. Read more about Oregon.
There are no Baby Boxes in Georgia nor is there a state law authorizing installation. Read more about Georgia.
A 2023 law, effective September 1, 2023, authorizes installation of baby boxes. Read more about Alabama.
Missouri currently has one baby box installed in the state. They are called newborn safety incubators in Missouri law. Read more about Missouri.
There are no Baby Boxes in Illinois nor is there a state law authorizing installation. Read more about Illinois.
There are no Baby Boxes in Wisconsin nor is there a state law authorizing installation. Read more about Wisconsin.
There are no Baby Boxes in Michigan nor is there a state law authorizing installation. Read more about Michigan.
One baby box has been installed in Tennessee. Read more about Tennessee.
While there is no state law authorizing installation of Baby Boxes in North Carolina, one has been installed in Asheville County. Read more about North Carolina.
One baby box has been installed since Mississippi enacted a law in 2023 to authorize installation of boxes.
There are no Baby Boxes in West Virginia, though a new law will allow their installation. Read more about West Virginia.
Iowa enacted a law in 2023 to authorize installation of baby boxes. To date none have been installed.Read more about Iowa.
Montana enacted a law in 2023 allowing installation of safe haven baby boxes. None have been installed to date.
State law in Texas, effective September 1, 2023, authorizes installation of baby boxes. None have been installed to date. Read more about Texas.

US Baby Box Map
Indiana has installed 100 baby boxes in the state, by far the most of any state. Read more about Indiana.
Arkansas currently has 17 safe haven baby boxes in the state. Read more about Arkansas.
Florida currently has 1 safe haven baby box in the state, installed in Ocala without specific state authorizing law. Read more about Florida.
Ohio currently has 8 safe haven baby boxes in the state. Read more about Ohio.
New Mexico currently has 2 safe haven baby boxes in the state, both installed without specific state authorizing law. Read more about New Mexico.
Kentucky currently has 18 safe haven baby boxes in the state. Read more about Kentucky.
State law in Louisiana authorizes installation of baby boxes. None have been installed to date. Read more about Louisiana.
Virginia enacted a law in 2022 allowing installation of safe haven baby boxes. None have been installed to date.
State law in Maine authorizes installation of baby boxes. None have been installed to date. Read more about Maine.
Oklahoma currently has one baby box installed in the state. Read more about Oklahoma.
Pennsylvania currently has one baby box in the state. Read more about Pennsylvania.
State law in Arizona does not specifically address safe haven baby boxes but six have been installed in hospitals across the state. Read more about Arizona.
State law in California does not specifically address safe haven baby boxes but allegedly one has allegedly been installed in a hospital wall in Pomona. Read more about California.
There are no Baby Boxes in Texas nor is there a state law authorizing installation. Read more about Texas.
Kansas enacted a law in 2023 to authorize installation of baby boxes. None have yet been installed.
There are no Baby Boxes in Colorado nor is there a state law authorizing installation.
There are no Baby Boxes in Oregon nor is there a state law authorizing installation. Read more about Oregon.
There are no Baby Boxes in Georgia nor is there a state law authorizing installation. Read more about Georgia.
A 2023 law, effective September 1, 2023, authorizes installation of baby boxes. Read more about Alabama.
Missouri currently has one baby box installed in the state. They are called newborn safety incubators in Missouri law. Read more about Missouri.
There are no Baby Boxes in Illinois nor is there a state law authorizing installation. Read more about Illinois.
There are no Baby Boxes in Wisconsin nor is there a state law authorizing installation. Read more about Wisconsin.
There are no Baby Boxes in Michigan nor is there a state law authorizing installation. Read more about Michigan.
One baby box has been installed in Tennessee. Read more about Tennessee.
While there is no state law authorizing installation of Baby Boxes in North Carolina, one has been installed in Asheville County. Read more about North Carolina.
One baby box has been installed since Mississippi enacted a law in 2023 to authorize installation of boxes.
There are no Baby Boxes in West Virginia, though a new law will allow their installation. Read more about West Virginia.
Iowa enacted a law in 2023 to authorize installation of baby boxes. To date none have been installed.Read more about Iowa.
Montana enacted a law in 2023 allowing installation of safe haven baby boxes. None have been installed to date.
State law in Texas, effective September 1, 2023, authorizes installation of baby boxes. None have been installed to date. Read more about Texas.
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.
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Press Release: San Antonio City Council Poised to Pass Unethical and Archiac Social Experiment on Babies to the Tune of Nearly $1/2 Million in Taxpayer Money
This outrageous budget request needs to be withdrawn permanently, or at least postponed for another year. The city should initiate a study of their use and efficacy that include the input of adopted people birth parents, and adoption professional that subscribe to best standards practice. The city has no business encouraging child abuse.

Action Alert: Stop San Antonio City Council from Funding $Half-a Million in Public Funds for Safe Haven Baby Boxes
Email San Antonio, Texas Mayor and City Council members today asking them to vote NO on this year’s budget request for $438,000 to pay for 12 Safe Haven Baby Boxes in the city.

Just When You Think Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc Can’t Get More Absurd–Panhandling for AAA Batteries
.something was missing. Mrs Kelsey forgot to add that AAA batteries are needed to operate the light packs. Always one to turn someone else’s buck into her own, she came back and asked for battery donations. Order them from Amazon, wrap up your extras, and drop them in the mail.

No One Can Sanitize a Safe Haven Baby Box Transaction like Missouri Rep. Jim Murphy
Why not hang a pair of rubber gloves on a hook next to the box? How about developing a technology where a robotic arm reaches out and removes the baby from the pre-murder clutches of its “desperate mother” (assumption: it’s always her, not a pissed-off father or grandparent.) That could make the separation of mother and child as mechanized and inhumane and cartoonish as it “should be” if you listen to the propaganda of the pushers, and Mrs Kelsey’s handy-dandy YouTube/TikTok that teaches women how to do a 30-second dump and run with no regrets, shame, or bloody underwear.

The Interview: Chris Hicks Deconstructs Safe Haven Baby Boxes. It’s Polite, but it’s Not Pretty
Ohio Safe Haven Baby Box critic Chis Hicks has done it again. Listen to the audio recording below where he (please, excuse the vulgarity) tore SHBB Inc and its founder and CEO, Monica Kelsey three new ones in an “informational” phone Q&A with Indiana filmmaker Trent Eilason, hired by SHBB Inc to make a full-length documentary to promote itself…After listening to Hicks’ total deconstruction of SHBB Inc, the baby box movement, and Mrs. Kelsey, and overall owning the baby box scheme and schemers I wondered if the documentary would go forward, at least with Eliason, who says no money has crossed hands yet. He admitted he thought that baby boxes are a good idea,
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Just When You Think Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc Can’t Get More Absurd–Panhandling for AAA Batteries
.something was missing. Mrs Kelsey forgot to add that AAA batteries are needed to operate the light packs. Always one to turn someone else’s buck into her own, she came back and asked for battery donations. Order them from Amazon, wrap up your extras, and drop them in the mail.

Hup 2..3..4..Hup 2..3..4..Safe Haven Baby Boxes are Marching into Kentucky
Currently, 19 Safe Haven Baby Boxes are operating in Kentucky, but that is about to change BIG TIME! Safe Haven Baby Boxes on the march! WRTB-TV reports, according to Monica Kelsey, Founder and CEO of Safe Haven Baby Boxes, that by the end of the year, that number will reach a crackin’ 34.

Safe Haven Baby Boxes Spreading Like a Virus. Here is What Boxers See for the Future
hat’s 80 new boxes on the way spreading like a virus.
It’s one thing to speculate. Another to see it in actual writing, even if we’ve already written that 10 boxes are scheduled for Alabama’s near future. San Antonio, Texas plans to have 10-12 soon! Yes, you read that right! 10-12 baby boxes in one city! A blog about that is forthcoming.

Wisconsin Gets a Safe Haven Baby Box Bill. Let’s Stop It!
Just when it looked like the legislative season might come to a well-deserved end, except for a couple of bills that don’t seem to be going much of anywhere, along comes Wisconsin.

The Private Grants that Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc Never Mentions
Why are the more than $1.3 million in grants and state funding never mentioned in the Baby Box Corporation’s website, social media, or annual reports?

Safe Haven Baby Box booster, Rep. Joe Harding, facing 35 years in the slammer on federal fraud charges
Safe Haven Baby Box bigtime booster and former Republican Florida House member Joe Harding pled guilty earlier this week to two counts each of federal wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements related to obtaining $150,000 in COVID-19 relief funds for dormant businesses–reportedly lawn care/landscaping –he owned.
Scenes from the Asylum

Would You Box Your Baby with this Person?
Is this professional? Is this normal? Does this exude confidence? Would we donate to this organization? Would we leave our baby with her? Hmmmm. No! No ! No!Nol! and No.!