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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

Marley Greiner — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:57:56 +0000

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

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Good News from Georgia:” Two Victories

Marley Greiner — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:53:59 +0000

Bad politics is running rampant through AdoptionLand this year, but we have good news out of Georgia: OBC bill passed the Senate; Baby Abandonment bill died in House.

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Joint Action Alert: Connecticut and Alaska Baby Abandonment Box Hearings, February 20, 2025

Marley Greiner — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:41:15 +0000

Connecticut and Alaska have Safe Haven Baby Box bill hearings scheduled for February 20, 2025. We need your help now...Safe Haven Baby Boxes are a direct attack on the adoptee rights movement and bastards who speak their own truth. This year, as you will see by the 2025 Legislation page, the country is being blitzkrieged with baby box bills. Currently there are 316 boxes in the US. 55 newborns have been caught and erased from their own histories and birth records. The adoptee voice has been virtually ignored by baby abandonment box promotors who say that adopted people who oppose are "mentally unstable." Let your voice be heard now and show them who is really unstable.

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Bastard Nation Emergency Action Alert: Keep Adoptee Rights Safe in Oregon. Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes.

Marley Greiner — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 02:46:39 +0000

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 is now in danger with the introduction of HB 2901, a bill to legalize the use of Safe Haven Baby Boxes sanitized as "newborn safety devices". A previous bill went nowhere. This bill has legs, and it is moving fast--reportedly a bi-partisan priority.

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Oregon: Bastard Nation Letter in Opposition to HB2001–Safe Haven Baby Box Bill

Marley Greiner — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 01:49:39 +0000

Over 25 years ago, our Ballot Measure 58 restored the right of all Oregon-born adopted persons the right 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.

It is with great alarm then that legislators are proposing—and apparently making it a priority-- to take a backward step and promote the secretization of adoptees, their records and histories with the introduction HB2901. This bill authorizes the use of “newborn safety device,”popularly known as “Safe Haven Baby Boxes” that allow parents—that is, overwhelmingly

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Welcome to Legislation 2022 Hell!

Marley Greiner — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 03:24:45 +0000

The Bastard Nation Legislation 2022 page is now up. The political outlook hasn't changed much from 2021. Granted, Connecticut did free up its OBCs and Massachusetts continued to move forward on its lumbering road to victory, but other than that, 2021 was a disappointing, frustrating, dreary year. Arizona went weird, Maryland zilched, and deformers continued to stumble their baby booties through their own muck. Safe Haven Baby Box bills and Baby Boxes continued to flare up like herpes under the banner of "women demand anonymity," the feel-good alternative for politicians who cringe over “adoptees demand rights.” Even more dismal, legislatures, blaming Covid, made discovering how to submit written testimony or to present remote or in-person an endurance test.

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How to Box Your Inconvenient Baby: It only takes 20 seconds

Marley Greiner — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 22:37:52 +0000

I've been following the Safe Haven Baby Box campaign for several years, and this video totally creeps me out.

This is why I stay in the War for Bastard Justice.

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