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.
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MAP: BABY BOXES IN THE UNITED STATES
Information about laws, statistics, issues, and locations of baby boxes across the United States. Click on a state for more information.
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What the Hell? Indiana to Pour $1 Million in Taxpayer Money into Safe Haven Baby Box Installations
This is a surprising development—but maybe it isn’t when you consider the baby box chicken-in-every pot vision of a future America.
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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Message to Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc: No, We Don’t Want to Force a Parent to Parent
Adopted people across the adoptee and political spectrum –from very pro-adoption to virulent adoption haters oppose Safe Haven Baby Boxes. If Mrs. Kelsey were plugged into AdoptionLand and AdopteeSocialMedia, instead of hanging out in her echo chamber, she would know that and maybe even figure out why. Instead, she prefers to dismiss us as “haters” who enjoy stories of discarded and dead babies because…
You Said You Want How Many Safe Haven Baby Boxes? The Hunger Never Ceases
Safe Haven and Baby Box laws were never intended to be an after-the-fact legal workaround for abusive or neglectful or lazy parents “at the end of their rope,” as the professional baby box propaganda team wants us to believe.
In a “God Moment,” Kentucky Church Raises $60,000 to Fund Local Unethical Safe Haven Baby Box Social Experiment
A Louisville church decides to throw money at an unproven, unethical, dangerous, archaic social experiment that can’t even be defined as a band-aid.
Arlene Bridges Samuels’ Adoptopia: A Preface to Post-Roe Adoption
For Samuels, adoptees are projections—imaginary grateful beneficiaries of her imaginary Adoptopia, or what she calls “the wonder of adoption.”
Safe Haven Baby Box Inc Theater and the Return of Baby 19: Adoptee Stories are Our Own, Not for Public Perusal
Adopted people have been subjected to this kind of exploitation, objectification, and third-party self-aggrandizement for decades.
Angelika’s Corner
$ for Adopters: $craping the Bottom of the $afe Haven Baby Box
I’m baffled that the “invited “box families seem to be expected to pay for their own room and board for the banquet–unless $800 for each is raised to pay for the trip… Shouldn’t they be the guests of honor? The least SHBB Inc could take that $800 and put it into a special account for therapy because these babies will grow up needing it.
Safe Haven Baby Boxes Plays with Language: Now Boxed Babies are Refugees!
We learned yesterday, quite by accident, that baby boxers attempted to get a box bill through the Kansas legislature last session under an assumed name: Newborn Refuge Cribs. This term never came through in bill searches because until this bill came along no such term existed.
Kitty Litter Time: Stupid Things People Say About Safe Haven Baby Boxes
The Putative Boss (PB) reminded me this afternoon that I have neglected to tend to my Kitty Litter in the last couple of weeks. No, my box is clean, but I’ve neglected to share some of the nuggets of wisdom I scooped out for the archives. (Sorry to be disgusting, but they are disgusting.) I think these baby box fans mean well, but, you know what they say about “good intentions.” Scratch that! I think some of them mean well. Professional spielers do not.
Safe Haven Baby Boxes Posts Paranoid, Snowflaky, and Confusing Response to Media Pushback
The reaction to the Flyer News editorial is ridiculous. On the face of it the response is overblown, but there is something underneath it all. A melting snowflake? A small crack in the foundation?. Is God angry? Just think how they will respond when the big pushback comes.