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Company Says Use of Baby Drop-Off Boxes for Abandoned Babies Has Risen Since 2022

Safe Haven Baby Boxes says it now has nearly 260 baby boxes in 19 states for safe and anonymous surrender of newborns.
Company Says Use of Baby Drop-Off Boxes for Abandoned Babies Has Risen Since 2022
The Bowling Green Fire Department's (BGFD) Safe Haven Baby Box at BGFD's Fire Station 7 in Bowling Green, Ky., on Feb. 10, 2023. Grace Ramey/Daily News via AP
Allan Stein
Allan Stein
9/8/2024|Updated: 9/8/2024
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Pamela Stenzel was in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, giving a talk about the benefits of Safe Haven Baby Boxes when a woman pitched her a difficult question.

In a conservative-leaning Midwestern city such as Sioux Falls (population 202,100), are the baby drop-off boxes just a “solution in search of a problem?”

Allan Stein
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Allan Stein is a national reporter for The Epoch Times based in Arizona.
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