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A Bad Rap for Safe Havens
It's running as a Public Service Announcement (PSA) on Massachusetts TV stations to promote the state's newly enacted safe haven law. It's a rap video... young girls (14-15 years old) sing and dance around another young girl holding a baby... and these are the lyrics:
If you have a baby and don't know what to do, Baby Safe Haven can help you choose.
When the baby is born and you're feeling all alone, and the mother's confused because she can't provide a home.
"Although I can or can't be there, another option is adoption."
"But where can I go for help?"
Bring the baby to the cops or hospital, it's possible.
No strings attached.
No questions asked.
If you have a baby and don't know what to do, Baby Safe Haven can help you choose.
Baby... Safe Haven!
Baby... Safe Haven!
Baby... Safe Haven!
This seems to be anything but an awareness program, and at first, many thought it was a parody - not for real. It encourages abandonment through a safe haven as a first option; it does nothing to help "confused" (to quote the lyrics) mothers learn about other options available to them, or to get them counseling or post-natal medical care.
As adoption advocate Ellen Rardin says, "A century of work to prevent infant abandonment goes down the drain."
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Nancy Ashe
Last edited by NancyAshe : 01-10-2005 at 10:39 PM.
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