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.
New South Wales Government Response to Safe Haven and Baby Box Proposal
Text of a letter from Jillian Skinner, New South Wales Minister of Health, to Senator Helen Polley, in response to a request to consider introducing baby boxes and safe haven laws in New South Wales, Australia.
Email from Monica Kelsey to Dr. Jerome M. Adams, June 24, 2016
Text of an email from Monica Kelsey, CEO of Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc., to Dr. Jerome Adams, then the Indiana state health commissioner (he later became the US Surgeon General).
Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes Now! Website Launched
Announcing the launch of Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes Now!, an internet activist project dedicated to the abolition of adoptee and adoption anonymity.
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.
Thoughts and Prayers and Shut Up! Safe Haven Baby Box Pushers Dismiss Adoptee Voices and Undermine the Adoptee Rights Movement
We object to Safe Haven Baby Boxes because they undermine the Adoptee Rights Movement. Can it be any more clear?
Massachusetts
Overview of Massachusetts law, statistics, legislation, and news stories related to Safe Haven Baby Boxes.
Indiana
An overview of Indiana law, statistics, legislation, and news stories related to Safe Haven Baby Boxes.