Seriously! Can you imagine sitting in jail, pregnant, and being lectured on how to abandon your baby and why should do it? Will migrants waiting to be kicked out of the country momentarily be encouraged to box their “anchor babies” that Texas and US governments so abhor? One never knows in our Abbott-Paxton fiefdom. I love SA, but this Safe Haven Baby Box dump on the city is a huge personal disappointment.
We Warned You, Mrs Kelsey: Private Adoption Agencies Would Price Gouge Baby Box Adopters If Given the Chance
Monica Kelsey, Founder/ CEO of Safe Haven Baby Boxes, Inc has backed away (with a cautionary stipulation) from a major provision of SB345 enacted in 2023. The provision authorized as an “option” the instant removal of a SH/SHBB baby from trad SH walk-in or box location into the private adoption spammer with no stop along the way. That is, allowed officials at SH/SBBB locations the “option” to transfer babies directly from their hands to a private adoption agency of their choice–without DCS knowledge of the drop-off–and within hours into the immediate loving arms of their “forever family”
Oregon: Joint Bastard Nation/Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes Now! Emergency Action Alert: Keep Adoptee Rights Safe in Oregon. Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes Senate Hearing April 17, 2025
Over 25 years ago Ballot Measure 58 restored the right of all Oregon-born adopted persons to obtain their OBCs without restrictions or conditions. Thousands of Oregon adoptees and their biological families have benefited from that measure. Since then, Oregon had led the nation by passing further legislation to secure openness and transparency in its adoption system, access for the adopted and their biological parents to adoption files and courts records, and to dispel overall adoption shame and hypocrisy of the past and into the future. Oregon is by far the gold standard for adoptee equal rights in US. The Oregon adopted automatically expect to be treated with dignity and respect.
This record and reputation is endangered by HB2901, a bill to legalize the use of Safe Haven Baby Boxes sanitized as “newborn safety devices.” A previous bill went nowhere, but HB2901 has already passed the House 50-10 and is now in the Senate Early Childhood Behavioral Health Committee.
A hearing is scheduled for Thursday April 17 at 1:00 PM. We need to kill this monster now.
What Happened to the Crestview, Florida, Baby Box?
We noticed a few days ago that the PTB at SHBB Inc said during the Chiefland box opening that this location housed the 6th box in the state. But our records indicate it is #7. We went to the company’s website location map and only 6 are marked.
Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc and Their Problem with The Devil
…Chiefland’s vice mayor Lewissa Johns, juiced it up. Dressed in what we used to call pedal pushers (incidentally my favorite style of pant) she informed us that The Devil and his handiwork delayed the box opening for nearly 2 years.
Oregon: Joint Bastard Nation/Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes Testimony/ Letter in Opposition to HB2901–Safe Haven Baby Box Bill
Oregon is by far, the gold standard for adoptee equal rights in US. The Oregon adopted automatically expect to be treated with dignity and respect.
It is with great alarm then that legislators are proposing—and apparently making it a priority– to take a backward step and promote the secretization of adoptees, their records and histories with the introduction HB2901. This bill authorizes the use of “newborn safety device,” popularly known as “Safe Haven Baby Boxes” that allow parents—that is, overwhelmingly “mothers in crisis”– to anonymously stick their infant up to 60 days of age, in a box in a wall and walk away
What’s the San Antonio Safe Haven Baby Box Installation Holdup? We Can Tell You.
In the Fall of 2023 SA jumped on the baby box bandwagon. City Council not only passed an ordinance to legalize box use in the city–but to appropriate $438,000 to pay for lease, installation, “education” and promotion. After year and a half, no boxes have been installed, though they were promised by the end of 2024…
Taxpayers Increasingly Paying for “Free” Baby Abandonment Boxes. SHBB Inc Continues to Lie about Funding
If the Missouri and Wyoming bills pass this means that a possible $2,211,000 in taxpayer money has been allocated–ie made available– to pay for baby abandonment boxes that are marketed nationwide to lawmakers and the public as “free.”
Missouri Taxpayers Slated to Become Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc’s Newest Cash Cow
On December 2, 2024, State Representative Jim Murphy, the Godfather of the Missouri baby box law, pre-filed HB 101 (bill page here) to create a Safe Place for Newborns Fund consisting of money appropriated by the state legislature solely to pay for the installation of baby boxes-
What is Iowa HHS Talking About? HHS Safe Haven Stats Don’t Match HSS Stat Claim
What Ms .Garcia talking about? The number of this year’s cases is smaller than last year, and a baby box wasn’t used in any of those “relinquishments” All cases were trad not via baby box. Please explain how the presence of baby boxes in the state has boosted the number of cases when they weren’t used.