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MACADAMIAS: OPPOSITION TO HAWAI’S’ SAFE HAVEN BILL GROWS

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For weeks now, we’ve been hearing from certain corners how “this woman” (Bastardette) and a handful of loons are the only opposition to Hawai’i’s safe haven scheme. Tonight I’m posting letters of opposition to HB 1830 sent to Gov Linda Lingle by other macadamias: The American Adoption Congress and Adoption Circle Hawai’i. Also check out Anita Field’s letter to Linda Lingle on her blog. If you have letter you’d like to go up here, send it to me. I’m publishing the AAC and ACH letters separately as the evening goes on. And remember: it’s not to late to get your voice heard.

HAWAI’I: BASTARD NATION LETTER TO GOV. LINGLE:–PLEASE VETO HB 1830 BABY DUMP

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Bastard Nation has faxed the following letter to Gov. Linda Lingle. Lingle vetoed a similar bill in 2003. May 22, 2007 The Honorable Linda LingleGovernor, State of Hawai`iExecutive ChambersState CapitolHonolulu, Hawai’i96813 RE: HB 1830: Safe Haven/”Safe Place for Newborns”—Please Veto Dear Governor Lingle: Bastard Nation: The Adoptee Rights Organization urges you to continue to reject enactment of so-called “Safe Haven laws” in Hawai’i and to veto HB 1830. Bastard Nation agrees whole-heartedly with your June 20, 2003 veto statement in which you assert that “legalized abandonment” subverts hanai and traditional Hawai’ian family practice and values. “Safe Havens” endanger all families. There is no epidemic of newborn abandonment and neonaticide in Hawai’i. Even “Safe Haven” proponents admit this. An archive search of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin indicates that since 1996 there has been one reported prosecutable newborn death (manslaughter in Koloa, Kaua’i) and no reported cases of unsafe newborn abandonment. What need then is there to legalize newborn abandonment when illegal abandonment doesn’t happen? The mechanistic anonymous “Safe Haven” system of infant abandonment rejects the long-standing Hawai’ian cultural practice of extended family care. Moreover, HB 1830 rejects informed consent and best practice standards of child welfare such as the collection of a Continue Reading →