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Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization
Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes Now
Alaska HB64: Authorization for Safe Haven Baby Boxes
Alaska House Judiciary Committee, February 20, 2026
. We need your help now
HB64 and its Senate companion SB9 received several hearings last session and was held over to 2026. Bastard Nation/SHBBN submitted opposition testimony, but the proposal received overwhelming support. Committees in both houses, however, refused to vote it out of their individual committees due to questions raised by some committee members. The first hearing this session was held on February 13 with only one witness outside of the sponsor: a representative of Right to Life Alaska Interior, who supported passage. A second hearing is scheduled for February 20, 2026
BN and SHBBN have again submitted joint written testimony.
Please join us and contact the House Judiciary Committee to voice your opposition to Safe Haven Baby Boxes. A few sentences are sufficient. If you have a connection to Alaska include it. All committee members will receive your letter sent to the address below
Alaska House Judiciary Committee email: House.Judiciary@akleg.gov
Details
SB9 Summary: Amends the Alaska Safe Haven law to authorize installation of baby abandonment boxes located at hospitals, freestanding medical facilities, offices of private physicians, municipal police stations, rural health clinics, state trooper posts, fire stations or other facilities designated by commissioner as an appropriate location for a “device.” State Appropriations: No. Age Limit: 21 days or less. ICWA Protections: Yes . OBC Access: Yes. Senate Amendments: Summary here. Several including addition of tribal health partners as locations and requirements for box size and signage. Alaska Legislative Session: January 20-May 20, 2026. Crossover Deadline: None
Lead Sponsor: Rep Frank Tomaszewski
Support: Anchorage Fire Department, Alaska Right to Life, Right to Life Interior Alaska, Alaska Childens’ Trust, Alaska Hospital & Healthcare Association
Oppose: Bastard Nation, Adoptees United, Adoptee Rights Law Center, Missouri Open, New York Adoptee Rights Coalition, Texas Adoptee Rights Coalition, Equal Access Oklahoma, Oklahoma Original Birth Certificates for All Adult Adoptee, Michigan Adoptee Rights Coalition, Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes, Saving Our Sisters, Society for Adoption Truth
Links:
- Joint Bastard Nation.SSHBBN Submitted Testimony to House Judiciary Committee Hearing, (February 20, 2026)
- Posted Online Documents/Testimony/Letters (House Judiciary Committee–this is probably not updated yet)
Safe Haven Baby Boxes are a direct attack on the adoptee rights movement and bastards who speak their own truth. Currently there are 417 boxes in the US. 75 newborns have been caught and erased from their own histories and birth records. The adoptee voice has been virtually ignored by baby abandonment box promoters who say that adopted people who oppose are “mentally unstable.” Let your voice be heard now and show them who is really unstable.
Thank you!
Bastard Nation—–www.bastards.org
Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes Now—-https://stopshbbnow.org/
614-795-6819
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