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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“If there had only been a baby box.” Musings on the Marygrace Trinidad Case
Not surprisingly, Baby Boxers turned the tragic story of a mentally disturbed woman and her baby into an anti-abortion cause celebre showing an appalling ignorance about newborn discard, mental illness, poverty, and abortion.
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Baby Drop Boxes: A Short Intro and a Big KABOOM!
I’ve been getting my ducks lined up for a series of blogs and articles, but then something too good comes along that cannot be ignored timely. Like today.
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