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This is a predatory organization operating under the guise of "rescuing" babies from abandonment. The reality is, exceptionally few women *actually* abandon their babies in dumpsters/boxes/on the church steps. /1 https://twitter.com/Project_Cuddle/status/1352300352729714691
And many of them, if they'd had compassionate SUPPORT instead of judgement and abuse from the very people who should have been most loving and supportive, would have wanted to KEEP their children. /2
Women who feel they have no alternative but to leave their babies for someone else to find are victims of our societal failure to adequately support women and to provide them with equitable access to reproductive healthcare. /3
Family preservation org. Saving Our Sisters helps women in 'crisis pregnancies' who want to parent their children but who have been preyed upon/coerced by adoption agencies. Average amount of $ these women need to get thru the *temporary* crisis circumstances: $500. /4
Average cost of private domestic infant adoption: $40,000. EIGHTY families could be preserved for the cost of ONE family getting an infant. So when you hear an org. like Project Cuddle talk about rescuing babies, you need to #FollowTheMoney. /5
People often complain that #adoption is too difficult, takes too long. This is why: when we shorten the process, we open the door to unethical, harmful practices like Proj.C. They need a quick process in order to obtain the product (baby) & complete the transaction (adoption). /6
A system that prioritizes human wellbeing will be necessarily slow and with numerous safeguards in place. A system that uses human beings as capital in order to generate profits cannot function in a just, equitable, wellness-focused system. /7
Especially if the purported aim is noble--to help abandoned babies--the means by which that is accomplished must be thoroughly examined. We need to explore the goal, too: is it to protect women/babies or is it to obtain babies for adoptive parents? /8
OF COURSE all of us want to make sure no babies freeze to death in a box on the church steps. That's basic human decency. But we're missing the point entirely if we don't start by fixing the societal root causes of how that baby came to be on those steps in the first place. /9
So what do we do? We advocate for comprehensive sex ed., universal health insurance, bigger/stronger safety nets, better access to reproductive healthcare, more rigorous vetting of family welfare organizations, & legislation that supports rather than harms women/children. /10
We secure basic human rights for ALL. We reverse legislation that denies equal rights/protections to adoptees. And we permanently shut down organizations like Project Cuddle, which are doing far more harm than good. /x
