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Safe Haven baby boxes have already saved countless lives, and Isabella Lamkin, a teenager from Louisville, Kentucky, wants to make sure they save lives in her state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These baby boxes are especially dear to Isabella\u2019s heart, as she herself was abandoned as an infant in China. \u201cThis organization is important to me, because I want these little babies […] to be able to have a chance, to have a family that can love them, the way my family loves me,\u201d she wrote in her <\/span>Change.org petition<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Under Safe Haven Baby laws, or \u201cBaby Moses\u201d laws, a baby may be safely, legally, and anonymously handed over to specified locations \u2014 mostly first responders \u2014 within a certain number of days or months from birth. The laws shield mothers who, for any number of reasons, cannot care for their infants, and they protect babies born in less than ideal circumstances from <\/span>dangerous situations<\/span><\/a>. In fact, Monica Kelsey, the <\/span>founder of Safe Haven Baby Boxes<\/span><\/a>, was once an abandoned infant herself.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lamkin envisions her petition as the first step in bringing the boxes to her state by building awareness of her cause. “We also want the permission from the State of Kentucky to do this,” Kelsey <\/span>told LEX18<\/span><\/a>. “We don’t want to be the red-headed stepchild in another state that’s coming into your state just because; we want people to understand the program. We want people to understand that this is an option for women and that women don’t have to use it if they don’t want to. They can continue to use the Safe Haven law as it is now.” Some parents want greater anonymity<\/a> than the tradition Safe Haven law provides, according to Kelsey.<\/span><\/p>\n

Safe Haven Baby Boxes are marketed as a safe and secure way to hold the infant until he or she can be received by first responders. When a parent opens the door, a silent alarm is triggered and a call goes out to 911. The boxes are temperature-controlled and have motion sensors. The baby is kept safe until help arrives to bring the baby to the nearest hospital for examination.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the organization\u2019s <\/span>website<\/span><\/a>, there are currently 56 active baby boxes: 50 in Indiana, 4 in Ohio, one in Florida and one in Arkansas. The first baby box was installed in Woodburn, Indiana, in April of 2016. Since that time, <\/span>no infants<\/span><\/a> in Indiana have died from illegal abandonment.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Safe Haven baby boxes have already saved countless lives, and Isabella Lamkin, a teenager from Louisville, Kentucky, wants to make sure they save lives in her state.\u00a0 These baby boxes are especially dear to Isabella\u2019s heart, as she herself was abandoned as an infant in China. \u201cThis organization is important to me, because I want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":606,"featured_media":238624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2793,4,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nTeen abandoned as baby in China advocates for safe haven baby boxes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cThis organization is important to me because I want these little babies to have a chance, to have a family that can love them, the way my family loves me.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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