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There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious–makes you so sick at heart–that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all….
Mario Savio, Sproul Hall steps, Deccember 2, 1964 Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 18: What Kind of Adoption Agency Allows This?

Today, Lila Rose, founder of LiveAction kicked off a discussion on how her 3 kids are hardly enough and she wants to have a lot more. She likes to point out that money should never be an issue whether you are discussing a first child or the 12th. There is always enough $$$ to go around. Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 15: Baby Box Adoption Surrenders are Dignified?

What in the world is “dignified” for a mother sneaking around in the middle of the night and sticking a secret baby into a hidy-hole at the fire station and running off? And what kind of dignity does that baby have being ditched, possibly naked (sometimes with a placenta hanging on it or covered in God knows what) with maybe not even a blanket–and certainly no name or history?  Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 14: Don’t Mourn, Organize

Anyway, during NAAM and beyond I plan to write some about Trump and his Criminal Family, incompetent nutbar associates, Project 2025 and any other malevolent plan that is exposed, and how they will impact adoptee rights and adoption in general if go unheeded Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 13: Nebraska: Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc Playing with Numbers

But, note that it indicates the number of abandoned babies up to 1 year of age. The Nebraska Safe Haven law, passed in 2008 limits the age an infant can be safe havend to 30 days. (It was recently increased to 90) That’s a big difference, especially when newborns are at risk for discard and murder within the first 24 hours of birth. Continue Reading →

NAAM DAY 12: Texas Lawmaker: Unconsumated Marriage is a Family Value

Rep. Cody Vasut, R-Angleton filed 2 bills to trap people in miserable marriages…House Bill 931, allows for loved-by-evangelicals covenant marriage to be enacted in Texas…Vasut also filed, House Bill 732, aka forced marriage by impotence. The bill would repeal a section of the Texas family code that allows for marriages to be annulled because of impotence. Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 11: Ohio Right to Life is at it Again: Pretending They Care about Women

ORTL can’t wait to spend taxpayer money on relinquishment incentives, maternity homes, crisis pregnancy camps, adopter tax breaks, and adoption advertising. To the best of my knowledge, it has never supported financial and material assistance to expecting and new moms and their babies, decent welcare payments, family preservation, fathers’ rights, or a living wage. Foster care is barely on their radar. And they do love baby abandonment boxes! Baby Box lover Jean Schmidt is a co-sponsor of the bill. Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 8: What the Hell, Donald! Free IVF for All?

I was unaware that Trump has promised “free universal IVF treatments.” I do remember, however,  his claim to be the “Father of IVF” which brings up the disturbing image of him whacking off into a kinky glass tube (or a sock) to pictures of Alina Habba or Laura Loomer. Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 7: Lower Teen Birth Rates Harm Missouri’s Economy

Yes, you heard that right folks.  Teen births are a good thing.  The more we have, the better off we’ll be…But we have a new brand of politician who in a whole new way, exploits teen pregnancy and birth for the most insidious of reasons: the amount of dollars they putatively generate for the state. Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 6: The Barbarians Are Coming: A Brief Mediation on Art, Power, and the Coming Dark Days

Although “The Barbarians are Coming” takes place in ancient Rome, it is a timely narrative of our own dysfunctional stagnant government, of our own politicians,  their hanger-on, and our legacy media, where wealth, spectacle, special interests, favoritism, and cruelty trump (excuse me!) humanity, compassion, reason, kindness, and ethics. “Ithaca” takes us on a meaningful journey to a kinder ending. Continue Reading →