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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
KEY: >100 Boxes 25-100 Boxes <25 Boxes No Boxes(but law allows them)
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
KEY: Active • Enacted • Dead/In Limbo • Session Dates
Featured Essays and Resources
WARNING! This Safe Haven Baby Box Inc Video Can Kill!
Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc runs a deeply dangerous video on its website,* YouTube, and other platforms. This video can kill your daughter, your sister, your best friend, your neighbor- -even you.
This video targets teen girls–but ultimately all women– teaching them it is OK to conceal a pregnancy and medically unassisted birth (apparently nearly stress- and mess- free) and then dispose of the evidence by popping the baby in the company’s magic box-in-the-wall-baby- erasing machine. You can walk away safe, healthy and carefree. No one will ever know you had this baby
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.
Latest News and Information
Big Box Grants for Safe Haven Baby Boxes– $3/4 million
In the last few months, Safe Haven Baby Boxes, Inc has received 2 whopping grants–one direct, the other indirect–to fund its baby erasure scheme. It’s not surprising that the non-profit corporation has not announced these grants publicly. If prospective donors saw the big bucks flowing into its big, beautiful money bag,* they might put their dollars into something more helpful, like family preservation projects and support for pregnant women, mothers, and babies in need of material and social assistance, instead of shoving them into the multi-billion-dollar adoption mill.
Legislation: Safe Haven Security & Adoption Act/”Safe Haven Babies Go to Adoption” Coming Our Way?
Last week Students for Life Action announced its agenda for 2026 and its nationwide 47 -day lobby day to push it through. You can read their press release and schedule here . SFLA is a long-time supporter and promoter of Safe Haven Baby Boxes, so it’s no surprise that abandonment boxes are included in this year’s rollcall: Safe Haven Security & Adoption Act/”Safe Haven Babies Go to Adoption”
SHBB Inc’s Christmas Dream
Stop us in our fight to stop this nightmare.
So much for Anonymity! Mrs Kelsey Visits Anonymous Baby Box Mothers or I Know Something That You Don’t Know!
It’s no secret that Monica Kelsey, CEO/Founder of Safe Haven Baby Boxes, knows the identity of some of the “anonymous” mothers manipulated into dropping their babies into her money-maker boxes. She’s mentioned publicly that they contact her post-boxing to check on the welfare of their babies and later just to shoot the chat. According to her, one box mother volunteers for the organization and makes appearances at public events.
Watch Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes Now on “The Stream”
It was a great pleasure to be part of the discussion, Are Baby BabyBoxes Saving Lives? broadcast on The Stream, (Al Jazeera English) on December 10. The panel, besides myself: Nadene Grabham, Director of Baby Savers SA/Cradle of Hope, and Patricia Knight Meyer, adoptee rights activist, blogger (My Adopted Life,and author of the forthcoming memoir, Wonderland: A Black Market Baby’s Rise from the Rabbit Hole.) Also clips from activists Abbi Johnson (Liberty Lost podcast) and Adopted Connor.
Angelika’s Corner
Chillicothe, Ohio: The Councilwoman Said What??!!
Chillicothe, Ohio City Council member Julie Preston recently introduced a resolution to authorize the installation of a Safe Haven Baby Box at Fire Station #1,According to the Scioto Post: Preston said this [SHBB} is long overdue…and agreed that it will be a safer version of the scene at the cathedral steps in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
NAM/NAAM Day 4: Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc Admits It Doesn’t Know Why Their Boxes Are Used–and Don’t Care
Newborn discard is rooted in economic disparity, race, class, misogyny, social dysfunction, and shame. Modern decent societies attempt to address these problems. The US sweeps them into the dustbin of liberal” wokeness” and irrelevance and blames the victim. “Not our problem.” As does SHBB Inc
Stupid Safe Haven Baby Box Inc Stuff of the Day
MEOW! For once I have nothing to say: Sighted today on SHBB Inc Facebook:
Safe Have Baby Boxes Inc Doubles Down on “Closed Adoption”
Monica Kelsey, founder-CEO of Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc just solidified herself as the biggest, but perhaps most ignorant, opponent to the Adoptee Rights movement on the United States today
Safe Haven Baby Box “Surrenders” are “Closed Adoptions!’ Say What?
Of all the misinformation prevarications, and out-and-out lies that SHBB Inc has propagated about adoption and baby abandonment boxes over the years, the idea that baby boxng is simply a “closed adoption” plan is the greatest. It tells pregnant women and new mothers concerned with adoption privacy issues, as well as the uninformed public, that boxing a baby is a traditional and normal adoption plan
Should Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes Change its Slogan from Safe Haven Baby Boxes: dangerous, unethical, anti-family, and anti-adoptee to…
“I think putting a baby in a box is completely unethical. To me, it’s a little disgusting. It’s like dropping off a urine sample.”
Scenes from the Asylum
NAM/NAAM Day 25: Safe Haven Baby Box Leader Loses Her Mind
Despite what the video implies, I can’t think of anything Mrs. Kelsey has that I want . (I lied. I’d not mind her and the Mr.’ s combined near $200k salary). I am certainly not jealous of what “she has.” Her proposed “family compound” makes me think of Waco. AdoptionLand holds nothing but disdain and disgust for her baby abandonment project, and her contempt of us, our rights, the rights of the babies she “saves,” the biofamilies she dismisses, the adoption mills whose doors she doorstops open, and the closets she wants to shove us in.
Why is a Safe Haven Baby Box Less Safe Than Your Power Cord? Inquiring Minds Want to Know
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.