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Baby Box Legalization Bill Advances in Senate

By Brandon Smith, IPB News | Published on in Government, Health, Statewide News
Monica Kelsey opens the baby box prototype. Saving unwanted babies is Kelsey's life mission. She was abandoned as an infant at an Ohio hospital. (Gretchen Frazee/WFIU-WTIU)

An Indiana Senate panel has advanced a bill that sanctions the use of so-called “baby boxes” in hospitals.  As Indiana Public Broadcasting’s Brandon Smith reports, it’s the same language that couldn’t get enough support for a vote last week.