Pregnancy Help News reported that the 2022 drowning of a newborn by the parents shortly after giving birth in a bathtub prompted residents of Fort Dodge, Iowa to raise the roughly $15,000 needed to purchase and install a Safe Haven Baby Box at the local fire station.

The boxes are designed for mothers to securely and anonymously deliver babies to a safe place where they will be taken by professionals for care and placement with a willing family. They are equipped with heating, cooling, and a silent alarm to ensure a baby is attended to shortly after placement. Once a baby is placed in a box, it then locks on the outside so passersby cannot take or harm the child.

While the exact details vary, each state has a safe haven law under which mothers who have decided they are unwilling or unable to raise their babies can leave them at certain locations, such as fire stations, hospitals, or police stations, without fear of legal punishment.
"There have been abandoned babies for decades in this country, even prior to Roe v. Wade being overturned," Safe Haven Baby Boxes executive director Monica Kelsey said. "Abandonments have never decreased. The only time that they've really decreased is when we start seeing the success of education and awareness and the last resort option of anonymity"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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