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”
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.
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.”
No! Hundreds of Babies Have NOT Been “Saved” in Safe Haven Baby Boxes in Indiana
MEOW!!!!! Even disregarding the disputable “saved” narrative, the idea of hundreds of Indiana babies captured by Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc is an out-of-and-out lie that demands retraction.
Crazy Claim: Safe Haven Baby Boxes Lower Infant Mortality Rates. Stats Show Differently
According to this report, Znachko made the most astounding claim during the ceremony: I ” believe that it is the number one initiative that we have to battle infant mortality in the state of Indiana and across our country.”
Indiana: Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc “Reforms Abandonment”
It’s especially weird since the baby box movement advocates for and encourages what the rest of the world sees as abandonment– newborn legal anonymous box dumping,– while insisting that anonymous “safe” boxing isn’t abandonment at all but a mechanistic, though happy transfer of Baby Bumble from a “vulnerable and dangerous mother” into the loving arms of stranger adopters. –with no human contact required. In other words, abandonment is abandonment only if it is illegal and unsafe, while legal abandonment is nothing more than the seamless safe, loving, and secret transfer of parental rights, and not abandonment. Newborn abandonment is thus presented as a semantical game that when “legal,” is cleansed of negative connotations and impact.
Indiana SB345: Bastard Nation’s Last letter of Opposition–In Hopeless Hope
Absolutely no adoptee rights or adoption reform organization in the United States today supports this unhealthy and unethical scheme that abrogates the rights of “legally abandoned” newborns, adoptees, and their biological parents and reeks of private industry privilege and profit. Yet our concerns go unanswered, and in fact ignored.
Indiana SB345: Bastard Nation Letter of Opposition– House Judiciary Committee, March 7, 2023. Legalizes child traffking for adoption
Moreover, the bill contains no requirement that the emergency provider even inform DCS of any type of Safe Haven event, hindering the state’s ability to regulate abandonment care procedures, oversee cases, and track abandonments and numbers. Lack of DCS involvement, in fact, reeks of black and gray market adoption outcomes and trafficking.
Indiana Senate Creates an Adoption-in-a-Box Pipeline
An Indiana bill will build a pipeline of abandoned babies, all boxed up and ready for adoption.
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.