Missouri’s baby box program is continuing to grow, with a new safe haven location now online in Jefferson City. The baby box at the Cole County EMS building gives parents in crisis a quiet, anonymous, and safe option to surrender a newborn, with help arriving...
Missouri now has 13 baby boxes statewide. The newest one was dedicated on Thursday at the Cole County EMS building in Jefferson City. Baby boxes allow parents in crisis to safely and anonymously surrender a newborn, knowing help is just seconds away. Gov. Mike Kehoe...
State Rep. Jim Murphy, R-St. Louis County, who wrote the 2021 law allowing safe haven baby boxes in Missouri, believes every hospital should have one. He told Missourinet that so far, it’s firehouses that have stepped up to install them. “I’m pressuring the...
A new Missouri will help to pay for more so-called “baby boxes” to be installed at fire stations. HB 121 will create a $250,000 fund that will be used to match private donations to buy and install more baby incubators. It was sponsored by State Rep. Jim Murphy, R-St....
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe’s bill signing pen may run out of ink by next Monday. He’s scheduled to sign nearly 40 bills into law by the 14th, the final day he’s required to take action on bills passed earlier this year. On Wednesday at the State Capitol, he’s scheduled...
