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1st infant in Kentucky surrendered anonymously at ‘baby box’

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. ✈ — Kentucky has seen its first infant anonymously dropped off at one of its “baby box” safe surrender locations.

At a news conference Friday, Safe Haven Baby Boxes founder and CEO Monica Kelsey said the child was dropped off within the last seven days at a Bowling Green Fire Department location, declining to be more specific to protect anonymity. She said fire department staff was able to tend to the child in less than 90 seconds.

The child is the 24th in the country to be surrendered at one of more than 130 baby boxes and drawers the organization has established across nine states.

“This baby is healthy. This baby is beautiful. This baby is perfect,” said Kelsey, who added that officials are now looking to place the child in “a forever home.”

Gov. Andy Beshear signed a law in 2021 that allows the use of baby boxes for children less than 30 days old. The law requires the boxes to be located at police stations, fire stations or hospitals that are staffed 24 hours a day. It also requires equipping them with a notification system to alert the first responders on site that a child has been placed inside the box.

Laurel 3 Feb 11
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And not a single word about the welfare of the mother. Not only that, that child needs to know their heritage for genetic health purposes but they never will. At the very least, these forced birth laws should be providing all types of support for the mother during pregnancy and beyond. You know we're in trouble when we start glorifying mothers abandoning their babies like this. Disgusting.

@Druvius That is not exclusively true and there's no evidence to support it. Statistically, very few babies are left in dumpsters and trash cans. This is the conservative alternative to abortion. Not only did they take our bodily autonomy, they won't provide support services to sustain us during the forced birth process.

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