A New Mexico community is celebrating this week after a mother anonymously surrendered her newborn to a safe haven baby box at a fire station.
Hobbs, New Mexico Fire Station 1 received a notification on Saturday indicating an object was placed in the town’s new baby box. Firefighters quickly responded to the scene where they found a baby boy safely tucked into the incubator.
“This is exactly why we put the baby box in the Hobbs Fire Department Station One, and they just couldn’t be happier with the end result – a safe baby taken to the hospital and healthy,” Mark Doporto, interim fire chief for the Hobbs Fire Department, told NewsWest 9.
Doporto praised the person who anonymously dropped off the child — presumably the boy’s mother — for using the box “for the best outcome of this child.”
Baby boxes are climate-controlled receptacles designed to “prevent illegal abandonment” by offering struggling mothers “a last resort option” to secretly give up their newborns.
These boxes are often demonized by corporate media as a conservative tool to further the war on abortion. In reality, thousands of babies are alive today thanks to safe haven protections like baby boxes.
The Hobbs baby box is the first in New Mexico to be used. Its success has prompted other cities like Portales, Carlsbad, and Roswell in the state to look into installing their own safe and secure surrender spaces.
“It’s just a tremendous victory for the City of Hobbs and
