A Few Bastardly Thoughts on Safe Haven Report - Marley Elizabeth Greiner
Bastard Nation's Executive Chair responds to the Donaldson Adoption Institute's report on Safe Haven laws.| > Back to Debate Overview | ||
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Intervention
The report suggests that girls and women suspected at being "at risk" be weeded out and subjected to some sort of professional "intervention." We believe this strategy is well intentioned but of the same mind-set as Safe Haven advocates. Intervention will attract those who might need some sort of practical support and counseling. It will not, however, attract those in multi-vectored pregnancies and denial who are genuinely at risk. It is time to accept the fact that babies will end up in canals, trash bins and buried in backyards no matter how many intervention programs and Safe Haven drop-offs are in town because baby saving is not on their mothers' agenda, and no amount of professional fussing will put it there.
Even more troubling: Over 4,000 faith-based "crisis pregnancy centers" (CPCs), heavily funded by federal grants and often affiliated with faith-based adoption agencies, can be found in the United States today. They would no doubt be at the forefront of intervention services where they would aggressively direct women at minimal risk into adoption plans. Not coincidentally, for the last year, NCFA has been "training the trainer" through its Infant Adoption Awareness program. Funded with a multi-million dollar federal grant from the Department of Health and Human Services, the program, as of February 2003, has trained more than 750 social workers, nurses and other professionals in Title X Clinics in the art of "raising adoption awareness" within the CPC environment, and ultimately among thousands of center personnel and clients. This "awareness" most probably includes an awareness of sealed records ideology and "non-bureaucratic placement" that can turn CPC personnel into de facto baby dumpers.
Page 1: Agree & Don't Agree
Page 2: Intervention
Page 3: Repair or Repeal
Page 4: Future of Safe Havens
© 2003 by Marley Elizabeth Greiner. All rights reserved.
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