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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
Action Alert: Georgia HB350. Safe Haven Baby Box Hearing, (submitted) February 20, 2026
The promotion and use of Safe Haven Baby Boxes is anti-adoptee, anti-adoption, anti-family, dangerous, and unethical. Boxes are a danger to the physical and mental/emotional health of mother and child. Abandonment boxes are a slap in the face of every parent who has followed normal child relinquishment procedures. The boxes are a slap in the face of the 6 million adopted people in the United States today, who unlike Georgia adoptees, are subjected to archaic and discriminatory adoption secrecy laws such as sealed birth and court records. They are a slap in the face of adopted people everywhere in the US who view Georgia as an ally in the battle for equality.
Bastard Nation/SHBBN. Testimony, Georgia HB350, Senate Health and Human Services Committee, (submitted) February 20, 2026
The promotion and use of Safe Haven Baby Boxes is anti-adoptee, anti-adoption, anti-family, dangerous, and unethical. Boxes are a danger to the physical and mental/emotional health of mother and child. Abandonment boxes are a slap in the face of every parent who has followed normal child relinquishment procedures. The boxes are a slap in the face of the 6 million adopted people in the United States today, who unlike Georgia adoptees, are subjected to archaic and discriminatory adoption secrecy laws such as sealed birth and court records.
Action Alert: Alaska HB64. Safe Haven Baby Box Hearing, February 20, 2026
The first hearing this session was held on February 13 with only one witness outside of the sponsor: a representative of Right to Life Alaska Interior, who supported passage. A second hearing is scheduled for February 20, 2026. BN and SHBBN have again submitted joint written testimony.
Bastard Nation/Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes Now Joint Testimony in Opposition to Alaska HB64, House Judiciary Committee, February 20, 2026
The promotion and use of Safe Haven Baby Boxes is anti-adoptee, anti-adoption, anti-family, dangerous, and unethical. Boxes are a danger to the physical and mental/emotional health of mother and child.
Georgia: Do Baby Boxers Actually Care About Moms?
Baby boxing accomplishes nothing but adding another layer of neglect and institutional abuse to the real lives of real girls and women. How does sending mothers back to where large complex problems caused the anonymous abandonment to begin with still exist, improve their lives? Baby boxing simply adds another layer of shame, neglect, and personal and institutional abuse to their lives.
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.