The Trumpyesque meme below was posted on SHBB social media sometime back, and illustrates perfectly bell hooks’ astute observation about the person becoming the product. That is, Mrs Kelsey makes her “baby saving” movement about herself. Look at me!
Iowa Adoptee & Family Coalition Issues Strong Statement Against Safe Haven Baby Boxes
Yesterday, the Iowa Adoptee & Family Coalition, in response to a Safe Haven Baby Box installation scheduled for next week in Norwalk, Iowa, issued a press release /policy statement condemning boxes. You can read the entire statement on the organization’s Facebook page, Here is an excerpt:
SHBB Inc Brags About Its Latest Trad Hand-Off? Why is This News?
By publicizing the Fort Wayne walk-in, SHBB Inc seems to be on the one hand a lame attempt to deflect from what the corporation and/or its public perceives as its own failures, while on the other hand, advertising its “services” and the necessity for more boxes.
Telling the Truth: Why Baby Boxes are Suddenly Everywhere–Time Magazine
The latest issue of Time has a terrific article about opposition to Safe Haven Baby Boxes: Why Baby Boxes are Suddenly Everywhere.
I am happy to say that I worked with Time writer Alana Semuels on this article a couple of months ago. It was worth the wait. Ms Semuels did her homework. I knew that when I talked to her, and it comes across in the article–which, btw, is 8 pages, printed out without the pictures.
Marion County, Florida: Taxpayers Expected to Pay for “Free” Safe Haven Baby Boxes
So far, Florida has not developed a grant system that lets the state pay at least partial baby box expenses, but down the road, it could. I don’t know how this will play out for future mandated baby boxes in Marion County, except that county, city, or township taxpayers will foot the bill for something currently marketed as “free. ” Of course, each fire station could apply for private non-profit foundation grants, hold bake sales and chicken dinners, and rattle the can door-to-door, but that’s unlikely. Ultimately, it really doesn’t matter where public funding comes from. SHBB Inc would be taking public money when Mrs Kelsey says it doesn’t.
The Safe Haven Baby Box Hotline Costs How Much???!!!
Is Monica Kelsey, CEO-Founder of SHBB Inc, claiming that her hotline will shut down, babies will die, and “desperate moms” will go to jail or worse unless her groupies divvy up a bag full of hard cash? Initially, I thought that this claim was simply a rhetorical device to drum up the mostly well-intentioned and gullible, but I repeat: Every $100 keeps our hotline open for another day.
Safe Have Baby Boxes Inc: The Numbers Jumble
The Safe Haven Baby Box Inc’s box numbering system has bugged us for a long time.When the baby abandonment company started its project, it listed each box by number and location, on its website. It was easy to read. A couple of years ago, TPTB replaced this simple utilitarian list with a messy “interactive map that forces anyone searching for location information to navigate their way through pesky orange circles and thumbtack thingees splattered over the screen.
Maine: Rumford Getting Safe Haven Baby Box for No Actual Reason
Rumford, Maine, is scheduled to be the first town in the state to open a Safe Haven Baby box, but fire chief Chris Reed, who believes it is essential for the town to have one, admits that Maine has no known abandoned newborn problem:
Beebe, Arkansas: More Public Funding for a”Free” Safe Haven Baby Box
This time: Taxpayers in Beebe, Arkansas (population 8,437) ) are about to be dunked for $11,730 to lease a Safe Haven Baby Box of their very own–a device that Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc founder/CEO Monica Kelsey claims ad infinitum is privately funded by donors. No tax lists need apply.
Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc: Thy Name is Vulgarity–Again!
Imagine the uproar if baby box opponents–bastards, adoption reformers, child welfare professionals, and scholars, and trad SH advocates– routinely discussed their underwear malfunctions or “better yet,” their lack of underwear.