Action Alert! Kansas HB2024: Vote DO NOT PASS Baby Box Bill. Don’t Let Kansas Betray Its History of Support for Adoptee Rights
On January 23 (Monday) the Kansas House Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care is holding a hearing on HB 2024, a bill to legalize the use of Safe Haven Baby Boxes—called Infant Refuge Bassinets in the bill. Kansas has never sealed Original Birth Certificates. There is opposition on the ground in Kansas, and we are asking those opposed to these devices to testify in person in Topeka, or by remote. or to send emails in opposition.
9 Safe Haven Baby Box Bills Hit Statehouses Around the Country. More to Come
It’s only January 16, but already a record-breaking eight states have Safe Haven Baby Box bills in the hopper, and at least one more state is scheduled to drop a bill soon. We can expect more since not all states are in session yet…Check it out!
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Montana
Overview of Mississippi law, statistics, legislation, and news stories related to Safe Haven Baby Boxes. Law No law related to baby boxes. Legislation 2023 HB 200 Revises the Montana Safe Haven Law to allow a “newborn safety device” (baby box) to be installed at state-approved locations for anonymous relinquishment by a parent. Also allows for a 911 emergency call pick-up by designated service providers. Pending No legislation Hearings/Testimony/Letters None to date. News &Commentary
Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc CEO to Adoptees: “Take your adoption problems and stuff ’em!”
In a recent TikTok, Monica Kelsey, founder and CEO of Safe Haven Baby Boxes continued her assault on adopted people and adoptee rights… This time around Mrs. Kelsey really jammed it with a head butt into her screen to get her point across that adoptees “with issues” aren’t welcome at her table.
Kentucky: Safe Haven Baby Box Cases
Known or reported cases of infants abandoned in Kentucky baby boxes.
Florida: Safe Haven Baby Box Cases
Known or reported cases of infants abandoned in Florida baby boxes.
Happy Holidays from the Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes Team
We’ve slowed down for the holidays, but that doesn’t mean we’ve stopped working. Angelika the Personal Assistant Cat has decorated the office and through her amazing magical cat powers brought the temperature in Corpus, Christi down from the low 80s to 23 degrees. Don’t cross her!
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Indiana Baby Box Adoption Hits the Wire. We Have Questions. Why Doesn’t the Media?
Does anyone believe that all 21 (or is that 22?) babies left in baby boxes and their mothers experienced no medical issues? No medical provider I have ever spoken to believes this.
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Things to Think About. “Adoption and Culture” Pre-Publication Articles on Adoption, Abortion, Reproductive Justice, Dobbs
Dobbs certainly impacts the restoration of adoptee rights to records, history, family, and identity. It establishes a state-backed pattern of purposeful creation and growth of an adopted class without normal identity rights and maintains the spurious ethics of adoption secrecy. It promotes the commercialization of child adoptee bodies and attempts to invent adult adoptee gratitude and adherence to adoption and its institutions. Should we expect a big boom in therapy in 20 years? These are things we need to think about:
Safe Haven Baby Boxes Coming to Oklahoma!
Under Oklahoma’s traditional safe haven law, babies up to 30 days of age can be dropped off. Mrs. Kelsey, seems to imply in the article, though, that that age restriction isn’t adequate. Does she mean that parents need more than 30 days to decide if parenting is “right” for them? That safe haven laws pressure parents to decide early? I dunno. I’m old, and I remember when drive-by parenting was discouraged. Unthinkable. Condemned.
Playing the Name Game: Current Safe Haven Baby Box Etymology
People just don’t like the idea of sticking a baby in a box. So it’s being rebranded.
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The Devil Made Us Do It! Safe Haven Baby Box Opposition Explained!
So let’s get this straight. Anyone who opposes Safe Haven Baby Boxes, Inc and its movement and its Dear Leader is weaving the Devil’s handiwork. God has appointed her to break the loom and build the box.
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Safe Haven Baby Boxes is All about Anonymity, Privacy, and Confidentiality—Except When They’re Not!
In the parlance of adoptee experience, this is adoption mindfuck at its dirtiest. A neat linguistic and psychological trick that forces adoptees to internalize the adoption lie and never to question adoption–and in the baby box case, the acquisition process. Issues of abandonment, shame, self-worth, depression, suicidal ideation, and self-loathing are the throughline of the adoptee experience. The baby box narrative with its contradictory mother-child message and celebration of abandonment and anonymity moves the bar even lower if that is possible.
Two Short Takes: Maps and Meow Culpa New Mexico
The job of top SSHBBN researcher takes me all over the map, and it is easy to get lost. You wouldn’t believe the things we don’t report on her here and just stash away in a file folder. Sometimes I want to report something, but it’s really too small to spend my time enlarging on but still needs to be noticed beyond my green news-stalker eyes. Today I offer two short takes from those.
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Introduction: Ohio Safe Haven Baby Boxes A Tale of Three Scandals
Ohio Safe Haven Baby Boxes are in trouble and under investigation by the. state… Mrs Kelsey says that she wants to work with ODOH to settle the issue, but she hasn’t taken responsibility for any violations of Ohio law and her own protocols. Her failure to catch these problems or just plain ignore them, reeks of careless management and an obsession to cook the books with baby boxes that don’t meet standards. “The law doesn’t mean what it says.” is the battle cry. AG Yost, in a letter to Union Township Trustees regarding one of their issues, responded, “yes it does.”
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Listen: Finally! A Critical Media Discussion on Safe Haven Baby Boxes without Baby Boxer Agitprop
And Best! Notably absent–finally–were SHBB Inc founder and CEO Monica Kelsey and her sometime minions who hog the media like they’re the Kardashians. That alone is reason to rejoice! An actual sane discussion without yappy agitprop, paranoia, cooked stats, and thoughts and prayers. I haven’t seen any public grousing from their side, but they like to keep the slightest criticism on the down-low. Adoptee criticism especially is black-holed.
Safe Haven Baby Boxes Plays with Language: Now Boxed Babies are Refugees!
We learned yesterday, quite by accident, that baby boxers attempted to get a box bill through the Kansas legislature last session under an assumed name: Newborn Refuge Cribs. This term never came through in bill searches because until this bill came along no such term existed.
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Message to Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc: No, We Don’t Want to Force a Parent to Parent
Adopted people across the adoptee and political spectrum –from very pro-adoption to virulent adoption haters oppose Safe Haven Baby Boxes. If Mrs. Kelsey were plugged into AdoptionLand and AdopteeSocialMedia, instead of hanging out in her echo chamber, she would know that and maybe even figure out why. Instead, she prefers to dismiss us as “haters” who enjoy stories of discarded and dead babies because…
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What the Hell? Indiana to Pour $1 Million in Taxpayer Money into Safe Haven Baby Box Installations
This is a surprising development—but maybe it isn’t when you consider the baby box chicken-in-every pot vision of a future America.
You Said You Want How Many Safe Haven Baby Boxes? The Hunger Never Ceases
Safe Haven and Baby Box laws were never intended to be an after-the-fact legal workaround for abusive or neglectful or lazy parents “at the end of their rope,” as the professional baby box propaganda team wants us to believe.
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In a “God Moment,” Kentucky Church Raises $60,000 to Fund Local Unethical Safe Haven Baby Box Social Experiment
A Louisville church decides to throw money at an unproven, unethical, dangerous, archaic social experiment that can’t even be defined as a band-aid.
Arlene Bridges Samuels’ Adoptopia: A Preface to Post-Roe Adoption
For Samuels, adoptees are projections—imaginary grateful beneficiaries of her imaginary Adoptopia, or what she calls “the wonder of adoption.”
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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.
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.
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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).
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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.
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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?
New Mexico: Politicians Want to Charge Taxpayers for Safe Haven Baby Boxes
New Mexico legislators play delirious to spend half a million dollars to maintain secret pregnancy, relinquishment, and adoption.
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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.
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Voluntary Donations v. Public Funding: Ohio Politician Thinks Taxpayers Should Pay for Privately-Funded Safe Haven Baby Boxes
One selling point for getting a town to install a baby box has been the claim that the cost of the box will not come out of taxpayer pockets. Well, that’s in question.
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.
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The Shame’s in Maine. Safe Haven Baby Boxes Now Law. And it Got Weird.
A compilation of some of the most weird-ass pro and con baby box testimony I’ve ever heard, all on Maine’s LD560.
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What’s Up with Pennsylvania? No Safe Haven Baby Boxes
For some time I’ve wondered why Pennsylvania hasn’t acquired any Safe Haven Baby Boxes. Well, now I know why.
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How to Box Your Inconvenient Baby
This year, 12 states are debating bills to legalize (or expand) the use of Safe Haven Baby Boxes.
More Thoughts, Prayers, and Shut Up!
Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc. continues to dismiss adoptees and undermine the adoptee rights movement. Just be glad you’re alive and adopted.
Arkansas Bill Mandates Abortion Seekers to Call State-run Hotline before Procedure to Discuss Alternatives. You Know What that Means
This bill fits right in with Arkansas’ other “prolife” mandates such as informing abortion seekers they can rely on bogus “abortion reversals” to halt medicated abortions if they change their minds halfway through the process.
Indiana News: Local Coverage of SHBB Proposals and Installations
A comprehensive set of news stories related to Indiana and the Safe Haven Baby Box movement in the state
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Indiana Safe Haven Baby Box Cases
Information on Safe Haven Baby Box cases in Indiana.
Arkansas Safe Haven Baby Box Cases
Safe Haven Baby Box cases in Arkansas, drawn from news reports, social media, and other resources.
Gary, Indiana: Stupid Things People Say about Safe Haven Baby Boxes or a Brief Discourse on Cognitive Dissonance
On December 4, 2020, Gary, Indiana Fire Station # 5 became the 48th location in the state to open a Safe Haven Baby Box where mothers can legally abandon their secret newborns by depositing them in a box-in-a-wall to prevent personal inconvenience, embarrassment, and shame.
Florida Baby Box Update: Ocala Marks the Spot!!
Florida’s first Safe Haven Baby Box will open soon in Ocala.
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Baby Boxes Coming to Florida Soon
Monica Kelsey, founder of Safe Haven Baby Boxes, announced that her organization will soon open its first Baby Box in Florida.
Eliminating Illegal Adoptions the Baby Box Way or Today’s WTF Moment in AdoptionLand
Unfortunately, just when I think “they” have reached the bottom of the barrel, the bottom drops another foot.
Another Cloying Adoption Story: Safe Haven Baby Box Girl Gets Adopted, and New Father says Weird Stuff
Ordinarily, I’d just dismiss this particular adoption story, but there’s a catch.
Attention Women! COVID-19ed up? The Justice Foundation Wants You to Safe Haven Your Baby
Christian zealots have weaponized Safe Haven—and now Baby Boxes—to push their forced-birth agenda during COVID-19 hysteria.
Bentonville, Arkansas: First Baby Box Dump. Not a Time to Celebrate
The Bentonville Box was the first Baby Box in the state, funded in large part by the local Knights of Columbus. The city is agog with joy.
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More Conflation and Co-option: Abortion, Adoption, Foster Care, and Wendy’s. Make it Stop!
Abortion abolitionists continue their fantasies about abortion and adoption, and abortees and adoptees.
Ohio Alert: Baby Drop Boxes on the Way?
Last week the Village Council of Pioneer, Ohio—population 1,300—unanimously approved installation of a baby box at the village fire station.
Even Safe Haven Advocates Oppose Baby Boxes
Despite reports from baby boxers, neither Tim Jaccard nor his organization or the National Safe Haven Alliance support the implementation of baby boxes.
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