An Indiana bill will build a pipeline of abandoned babies, all boxed up and ready for adoption.
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Why is Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc So Afraid of Adoptees?
Class Bastard—the Adopted—to the minds of the baby box tycoonery poses some kind of existential threat to their evangelical stampede through America to normalize baby-abandonment-by-box-in-the-wall.
Sex Outside of Marriage? You’re a Piece of Chewed Up Gum that Nobody Wants. A Message from Pam Stenzel, Safe Haven Baby Box Hotline Coordinator/Counselor
Her bottom line preached for three decades: if you have sex outside of marriage you will pay for it for the rest of your life, physically mentally, and emotionally…he compared teen girls who had had sex to a nasty piece of chewed-up gum and an old shoe. Who would want them? Twenty years later it’s still her message.
Abortion, Adoption, Safe Havens, and Reproductive Justice
It’s all theater. For baby box pushers, adoptees and “desperate mothers” are nothing more than dehumanized props used to create a utopian abortion-free world.
What Critics Say About Baby Boxes
Baby Boxes do not empower women and certainly not their abandoned children as they grow up. They trivialize pregnancy, commodify babies, and maintain adoption secrets and lies.
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Crazy Claim: Safe Haven Baby Boxes Lower Infant Mortality Rates. Stats Show Differently
According to this report, Znachko made the most astounding claim during the ceremony: I ” believe that it is the number one initiative that we have to battle infant mortality in the state of Indiana and across our country.”
West Virginia University Funds Safe Haven Baby Boxes; Cuts 28 Programs from the Curriculum
West Virginia University, has agreed to donate $16,000 to cover the partial cost of two Safe Haven Baby Boxes in Wheeling. That the state’s flagship institution of higher education–a public land-grant research university– is throwing money at such an ugly discriminatory misogynistic adopteephobic social experiment ( whew!) is so disgusting that I hardly know how to respond except with a big Barf You. Words fail. Perhaps you can give me some.
Guess Who Loves Safe Haven Baby Boxes
This crew runs a bigger soap opera than Days of Our Lives could ever dream up. They never miss a photo op. Neither does the baby abandonment company
National Adoption (Awareness) Month: Safe Haven Baby Boxes Juggernaut Continues
Nothing says National Adoption (Awareness) Month more than the current SHBB national juggernaut. We are just about halfway through this dreadful month, and seven new boxes have been opened–excuse me, blessed–so far. Another is scheduled to open this week. Who knows what’s in store for us for the rest of the month? Adoption is beautiful! Especially with no pesky parental strings, best practice, and ethics attached.
Hutchinson, Kansas Gets 2 Baby Boxes–from Canada. What’s Up With That?
The City of Hutchinson, Kansas issued a media release he other day to announce that 2 “Safe Haven Baby Boxes” will be coming to Hutchinson as soon as $50,000 can be raised. Only, they aren’t “Safe Haven Baby Boxes.” They are “Hope’s Cradles” from Gems for Gems, a Canadian non-profit that has installed a couple of their own boxes in Alberta and Manitoba and has a few more locations lined up in Ontario. (See the SSHBBN Canada, Promotors, and Targets pages for more information.
Angelika’s Corner
Fun at Safe Have Baby Boxes
Now, I believe that SHBB Inc founder and CEO Monica Kelsey actually cares about these babies. She may love them. It’s not an act. She sometimes refers to them as “my babies.” She fantasizes occasionally that someday one of these (grateful) kids will grow up and take over the baby box company when she retires. Frankly, I don’t see her ever retiring because it’s much more fun and easier than her former job of firefighter/EMT, and there’s lots of free travel thanks to other people’s dimes.
Save Haven Baby Boxes are Amenities?
Here I thought amenities were Scotch in the refrigerator, a fluffy monogrammed bathrobe in the closet, and free toiletries, breakfasts, and gym at the Hyatt. Hershey’s Nuggets on the pillow are also nice. Godiva Truffles, better.
Just When You Think Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc Can’t Get More Absurd–Panhandling for AAA Batteries
.something was missing. Mrs Kelsey forgot to add that AAA batteries are needed to operate the light packs. Always one to turn someone else’s buck into her own, she came back and asked for battery donations. Order them from Amazon, wrap up your extras, and drop them in the mail.
Hup 2..3..4..Hup 2..3..4..Safe Haven Baby Boxes are Marching into Kentucky
Currently, 19 Safe Haven Baby Boxes are operating in Kentucky, but that is about to change BIG TIME! Safe Haven Baby Boxes on the march! WRTB-TV reports, according to Monica Kelsey, Founder and CEO of Safe Haven Baby Boxes, that by the end of the year, that number will reach a crackin’ 34.
Safe Haven Baby Boxes Spreading Like a Virus. Here is What Boxers See for the Future
That’s 80 new boxes on the way spreading like a virus.
It’s one thing to speculate. Another to see it in actual writing, even if we’ve already written that 10 boxes are scheduled for Alabama’s near future. San Antonio, Texas plans to have 10-12 soon! Yes, you read that right! 10-12 baby boxes in one city! A blog about that is forthcoming.
Wisconsin Gets a Safe Haven Baby Box Bill. Let’s Stop It!
Just when it looked like the legislative season might come to a well-deserved end, except for a couple of bills that don’t seem to be going much of anywhere, along comes Wisconsin.
Scenes from the Asylum
Would You Box Your Baby with this Person?
Is this professional? Is this normal? Does this exude confidence? Would we donate to this organization? Would we leave our baby with her? Hmmmm. No! No ! No!Nol! and No.!