Adopted people have been subjected to this kind of exploitation, objectification, and third-party self-aggrandizement for decades.
Guest Post: Safe Haven Baby Boxes Target Vulnerable Potential Birthparents and Bypass Protected Legal Processes
There is a vast public misconception that Safe Haven laws and Baby Boxes are about rescuing newborns from certain death. A guest post by Elizabeth Jurenovich.
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.
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?
Get Out of the Way! It’s a Birthday Party!
When Linda Znachko speaks at baby box blessings, she refers to the day a baby is boxed up and left behind, as “a birthday party waiting to happen.”
Safe Haven Baby Boxes are Coming to Your State. And Yours . . . and Yours . . . and Yours
The Safe Haven Baby Box Blitzkrieg continues to rip through Indiana—and other states.
Michigan: Baby Bopping and Boxing with Bethany Christian Services
State-facilitated anonymous “safe deliveries” and baby boxes are permanent identity erasure, not closed adoption.
Maine: Who Knew? Safe Haven Baby Boxes Honor Adoptees and their Stories!
Maine has a near-zilch history of discarded baby cases. The state doesn’t need another backstop.