Posted on 02/28/2026 6:55:24 PM PST by Morgana
A fire station in Rapid City, South Dakota, has opened the state’s first Safe Haven Baby Box.
Communities in South Dakota have discussed bringing baby boxes to the state for years — a push that increased after the body of baby Gabriel was found at a Sioux Falls recycling center in 2024, KELO reported.
“That same week after baby Gabriel was found there was another phone call that came into Safe Haven looking for a box in South Dakota. So, there was a second baby where the mother was looking to surrender the baby and there was no box for her. But she did end up surrendering to a hospital,” SD Right to Life Executive Director Jenn Lee said.
Watch:
The new box is at Rapid City Fire Department station #1 in downtown, according to the report. In South Dakota, babies may be legally surrendered less than 60 days old and unharmed to hospitals, fire and police stations, emergency services, baby boxes, and licensed child placement agencies, according to the state’s Department of Social Services.
Baby boxes were created to deter parents from abandoning their newborns in unsafe conditions, potentially leaving them to die. Baby boxes are temperature-controlled incubators often built into exterior walls of fire stations, police stations, and hospitals that can be accessed from inside. At-risk mothers can safely and legally place their newborns inside. Once the baby is inside the baby box the outside door locks and the mother has time to leave before an alarm goes off alerting first responders or hospital staff to the child’s presence.
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Lots of bored teens and drunken Indians in SD.
These make so much sense.
I don’t know why every state doesn’t do it.
And innocent babies that need to live
If your city does not have one put pressure on your local council men/women to put one in. Call your local rep and tell him/her you want one.
Yes, a more surprising amount than most would think in such a nice state. But all the young adults I knew there were on drugs and getting pregnant because there was nothing else to do.
Sick people treating their own flesh and bone like a disposable item.
Because that might offend the pro-abortion mob.
Because that might offend the pro-abortion mob.
A brilliant and life saving concept.
This is a great idea. I hope it’s not ruined by assholes creating mischief.
Put a box at every fire dept door! They exist to save lives because every life is valued. Why stop at fires only?
Put a loud doorbell switch at the bottom of the box that never shuts off while loaded.
Give God’s love of the two a chance, regardless our opinion.
11 babies have been rescued by First Safe Haven Baby Box in Kentucky. Hopefully that number is out of date.
First Safe Haven Baby Box are a great idea
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