Oregon: Joint Bastard Nation/Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes Now! Emergency Action Alert: Keep Adoptee Rights Safe in Oregon. Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes Senate Hearing April 17, 2025

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OREGON WANTS TO LEGALIZE SAFE HAVEN BABY BOXES

Let the adoptee voice be heard loud and clear

No Baby Boxes in Oregon!

Oregon is the heart and soul of the Adoptee Rights Movement.

Over 25 years ago Ballot Measure 58 restored the right of all Oregon-born adopted persons to obtain their OBCs without restrictions or conditions. Thousands of Oregon adoptees and their biological families have benefited from that measure. Since then, Oregon had led the nation by passing further legislation to secure openness and transparency in its adoption system, access for the adopted and their biological parents to adoption files and courts records, and to dispel overall adoption shame and hypocrisy of the past and into the future. Oregon is by far the gold standard for adoptee equal rights in US. The Oregon adopted automatically expect to be treated with dignity and respect.

This record and reputation is endangered by HB2901, a bill to legalize the use of Safe Haven Baby Boxes sanitized as “newborn safety devices.” A previous bill went nowhere, but HB2901 has already passed the House 50-10 and is now in the Senate Early Childhood Behavioral Health Committee.

A hearing is scheduled for Thursday April 17 at 1:00 PM. We need to kill this monster now. We submitted our written testimony online and sent it to each committee member and Senate sponsor separately.

Ordinarily we don’t post our testimony before a hearing, but we are making an exception this time because keeping Oregon safe is crucial to adopted people current and future, and our rights throughout the country.

For Guidance:

HB2901 Legislative Page —includes link to bill

BN/SSHBBN HB2901 Submitted Testimony, Senate Early Childhood Behavioral Committee. April 17, 2025 (pdf)

Talking Points: Why We Oppose Safe Haven Baby Boxes (text and pdf)

Safe Haven Baby Boxes: Five Concerns Beyond Unethical Adoption and Child Welfare Practices ( (pdf)

Also see:

Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics at Yale University: An Open Letter to HHS Leadership about Policy Responses to Crisis Pregnancies.

Legislative Report: US Policy Responses to Infant Abandonment and In Infant Abandonment. Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Infant Abandonment Strategic Working Group, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University, November 1, 2024These can be read/downloaded from the main page of the Infant Abandonment Study Group page:

Testimony and Letters

Your testimony or letter need not be long, but please state why you oppose the bill and note if you have an Oregon connection.

Testimony is really easy to submit. Go to the Oregon Legislative Information site; pick out April 17, 2025; then Senate Early Childhood Behavioral Health Committee (it may also ask you for the time of the hearing—1:00 PM) and you are there. Fill out the short form and download your submission. The submission form does not accept attachments to your document.

Go here for a short video on the submission process along with information on how to give testimony in person or remote.

Please submit testimony to each Senator and Sponsor, too.

Contact list:

I have checked all of the addys and none bounce.

Committee:

Sen.LisaReynolds@oregonlegislature.gov, Sen.DickAnderson@oregonlegislature.gov, Sen.ChrisGorsek@oregonlegislature.gov, sen.dianelinthicum@oregonlegislature.gov, Sen.DebPatterson@oregonlegislature.gov

Twitter: @DebPattersonOR Don’t betray Oregon’s long history of supporting adoptee civil rights. Vote NO on SB2901. Baby Boxes are anti-adoptee, anti-adoption, and anti-family.

Senate Sponsors:

Sen.SuzanneWeber@oregonlegislature.gov, Sen.LewFrederick@oregonlegislature.gov, Sen.KimThatcher@oregonlegislature.gov, sen.kathleentaylor@oregonlegislature.gov

Twitter: @Kathleen4Oregon Don’t betray Oregons’ long history of supporting adoptee civil rights. Vote NO on SB2901. Baby Boxes are anti-adoptee, anti-adoption, and anti-family.

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