{"id":282962,"date":"2023-01-08T15:01:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T21:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=282962"},"modified":"2023-01-16T11:25:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T17:25:28","slug":"life-saved-florida-first-baby-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/life-saved-florida-first-baby-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Very first life saved by Florida&#8217;s first and only Safe Haven Baby Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A Florida baby has been saved after being surrendered at the Safe Haven Baby Box in Ocala. The surrender marks the first time that a baby has been surrendered using the box, which was installed in 2020 and is the only one in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so happy to hear of this miracle baby,\u201d said\u00a0Ocala Mayor Kent Guinn at a press conference Thursday morning. \u201cI knew when we did this in 2020, this day would come. We all did. We just didn\u2019t know when. We\u2019re glad it was there as a resource for the mother of this child. I\u2019m sure there will be a bright future ahead for this precious child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Safe Haven Baby Box organization installs temperature-controlled boxes in hospitals and fire stations throughout the country. When a baby is placed inside the box, a silent alarm is triggered, and the child is rescued and receives medical attention immediately. The boxes allow a parent to safely and anonymously surrender an infant under each state&#8217;s safe haven law, which exists to reduce instances of infant abandonment.<\/p>\n<p>Monica Kelsey, founder of Safe Haven Baby Boxes, started her organization because she, too, was abandoned as an infant.\u00a0\u201cMy biological father is a rapist and I was abandoned at birth and my life still has value,&#8221; she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2023\/01\/05\/1st-newborn-surrendered-to-florida-safe-haven-baby-box\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. &#8220;I wish that today, my birth mom would have had those resources all those years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/general-donation\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=monthly&amp;utm_content=article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>For every dollar given, 34 more people can be reached with the truth about abortion. Will you join us in this life-saving work as a monthly donor today?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FSafeHavenBabyBoxes%2Fposts%2F463966962607343&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\">\n<p>Kelsey was in Florida for a press conference following the successful surrender. &#8220;We are so proud of this selfless parent who has lovingly surrendered their infant via a Baby Box over the holiday!&#8221; she said. &#8220;We are so happy this community was prepared for this situation. We know this baby will be so loved by an adoptive family and we are so thrilled to be a part of protecting infants from abandonment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, Safe Haven Baby Boxes are located in Indiana, Ohio, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. The infant surrender marks the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2023\/01\/05\/first-baby-state-surrendered-safe-haven-baby-box-ocala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">23rd<\/a>\u00a0since 2017, utilizing one of the boxes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pledge.liveaction.org\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=prolife_pledge\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-277267\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pledge-live-action-ad-970x250-700x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida baby has been saved after being surrendered at the Safe Haven Baby Box in Ocala. The surrender marks the first time that a baby has been surrendered using the box, which was installed in 2020 and is the only one in the state. \u201cI\u2019m so happy to hear of this miracle baby,\u201d said\u00a0Ocala [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":607,"featured_media":282996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[9455,3473],"tags":[15244,72,19744,3646,19743,8695],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Very first life saved by Florida&#039;s first and only Safe Haven Baby Box<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Florida baby has been saved after being surrendered at the Safe Haven Baby Box in Ocala. 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