Rumford, Maine, is scheduled to be the first town in the state to open a Safe Haven Baby box, but fire chief Chris Reed, who believes it is essential for the town to have one, admits that Maine has no known abandoned newborn problem:
Beebe, Arkansas: More Public Funding for a”Free” Safe Haven Baby Box
This time: Taxpayers in Beebe, Arkansas (population 8,437) ) are about to be dunked for $11,730 to lease a Safe Haven Baby Box of their very own–a device that Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc founder/CEO Monica Kelsey claims ad infinitum is privately funded by donors. No tax lists need apply.
Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc: Thy Name is Vulgarity–Again!
Imagine the uproar if baby box opponents–bastards, adoption reformers, child welfare professionals, and scholars, and trad SH advocates– routinely discussed their underwear malfunctions or “better yet,” their lack of underwear.
North Carolina v Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc: the Battle Heats Up
Discussing her legislative impasse on social media, Mrs Kelsey complains that the legislature just hasn’t caught up with her technology. IOW, North Carolina lawmakers are a bunch of Foghorn Leghorn Luddites.
Week of June 24-27, 2025: Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc Runs Amok!
Things have been pretty quiet the last couple of weeks, with zero-1-2 Safe Haven Baby box openings. Now that summer is officially here, though, the SHBB industry is bursting with energy and running amok throughout the country. This week, 8 boxes will go into operation. Yes! 8 boxes!
The Devil’s Dance: Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc Celebrates New Box Opening with a Twerk
To celebrate the opening of the county’s 345th baby abandonment box (#147 in Indiana) –(Bloomington Fire Station #2, 209 S Fairfield Drive), someone decided it was a good idea to do a happy dance to commemorate the occasion and post it on TikTok. (We can guess who!)
New York State Gets Baby Abandonment Box Bill: Albany is Not Hoosierville.
While other states are closing their sessions for the year, New York plows ahead. We missed the bill drop in Albany a few weeks ago of companion baby box measures…We’ll be watching New York carefully. It could be fun watching Mrs Kelsey attempt to mingle with the Albany gang. Albany is not Hoosierville.
Safe Haven Baby Box Legislative Update, June 5, 2025
The barrage of bills was overwhelming. Now a tiny handful of bills remain active, and some will go nowhere…We send a huge thank you to our friends and colleagues who worked diligently and strategically to kill passage of Safe Haven Baby Box bills throughout the country. You stood hand-in-hand with adopted people, current and future, to stop the baby box abrogation of our civil right to our own birth records, identities, histories, and collective dignity.
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 Haven Baby Boxes Inc Demands North Carolina Ax Baby Box Authorization Bill. Vested Interests Threatened
If the law is enacted, it will force Mrs Kelsey by law –so she says–to remove the boxes she already placed in Jefferson and Gatesville under Home Rule, due to the lack of their around-the-clockstaff. This would leave the state baby boxless for the time being…and you know what that means..