Tue Oct 3, 2023 – 12:40 pm EDT
HOBBS, New Mexico (LifeSiteNews) — New Mexico firefighters retrieved the first infant ever to be dropped off in a recently-installed “baby box,” a temperature-controlled incubator designed to receive babies whose mothers are unable to care for them.
Baby boxes have become an important pro-life resource enabling moms in crisis situations to safely and anonymously relinquish their newborns in accordance with state safe haven laws that allow people to drop off unharmed newborn babies at secure locations, like fire or police stations or hospitals.
In the early morning of Saturday, September 23, Fire Station One in Hobbs, New Mexico, received an alert indicating that their new baby box had been activated, local outlet KRQE reported.
“This is a great day for the community of Hobbs, New Mexico. With all the tragedy that’s been going on with these types of incidents in New Mexico, this is a great day,” Hobbs Interim Fire Chief Mark Doporto told the outlet.
The second box of its kind in radically pro-abortion New Mexico, the Hobbs baby box was installed in May, just a week after teen mother Alexis Avila was sentenced to 18 years
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