The child was pulled from the climate-controlled box about 90 seconds after being surrendered, according to Kelsey.
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Republican state Sen. Nancy Tate, who spearheaded the bill’s unanimous passage, told WNKY that she hopes to expand the program in Kentucky.
“It’s great to have 16 boxes here in Kentucky,” she told the outlet. “There are 120 counties. My goal is to have at least one box in every county and I don’t see any reason why we can’t do that.”
The National Safe Haven Alliance says33 infantswere illegally abandoned and 115 were saved in the U.S. in 2021. But the program does have its critics, with some noting how few babies are surrendered each year.
Additionally, the organization has referred over 500 women to crisis pregnancy centers, which are heavily criticized for providing misleading and inaccurate information regarding sexual and reproductive health, according to the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine and the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology.
source: people.com
