Baby Saved From Abortion Via Safe Haven Box in Conway

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Last week Arkansas Right to Life reported that a newborn baby was safely and anonymously surrendered to first responders at Fire Station #1 Conway via the fire station’s Safe Haven Baby Box.

Arkansas’ Safe Haven Act of 2001 lets a woman surrender her newborn baby to law enforcement, medical personnel, and first responders. The law gives women with unplanned pregnancies an option besides abortion, and it protects newborns from being abandoned.

Similar laws are on the books in all 50 states.

Safe Haven Baby Boxes like the one in Conway can be installed at fire stations.

They let a woman surrender her newborn legally, safely, and anonymously using a specialized, hospital-grade bassinet that keeps the baby secure while a silent alarm notifies first responders inside the fire station that the baby is there.

This is an amazing, pro-life story.

Arkansas Right to Life currently is leading a billboard campaign to raise awareness about the state’s Safe Haven law. We look forward to that law saving the lives of other children in the future.

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A Nordic Baby Boom?

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Several Nordic countries that, for decades, have had among the world’s lowest birthrates experienced a baby boom during the pandemic. In the second half of 2021, Iceland saw an incredible 16.5% more births than usual, and Finland and Norway experienced 7 and 5% more births, respectively.  

Typically, a global crisis results in lower fertility rates. In the U.S., for example, the birthrate dropped by 4%. In China, it was a staggering 15%. For years, Nordic countries have offered generous incentives to increase child births, to little effect, as have other European nations that did not see a similar boom during the pandemic. So, money can’t explain it.  

Perhaps for some, the pandemic highlighted what really matters.  

One Icelandic mom of teenagers said: “We would just have conversations about everything and nothing and have fun and laugh. … I think that was the tipping point for me. I realized I wasn’t ready to be done with the mom thing.” 

The mom thing—and the dad thing—is a good thing.

Copyright 2022 by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Reprinted from BreakPoint.org with permission.

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Proposal Would Relocate Sexual Material In Jonesboro Library

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On Monday the Craighead County Library Board is scheduled to vote on a policy that would move graphic sexual material out of the children’s area at the library.

You may remember last year the library made headlines after a lawsuit revealed that extremely graphic material was on the shelves in the children’s section of the library.

The proposed policy that the library board will consider on Monday says,

“The purpose of this policy is to protect minors from unintentional exposure to sexually graphic/explicit material in the Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library and to assist parents who wish to allow children to browse through books in areas designated for minors by ensuring some areas of the library are free of detailed descriptions of sexual encounters. 


“Any material in the library placed in areas that are designated for use particularly by minors shall not contain text describing or images depicting sexually graphic/explicit acts.”

This proposal doesn’t eliminate sexually-explicit material at the library altogether, but it at least moves sexually-explicit material out of the children’s area.

Take Action: Please email the board members of the Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library at board@libraryinjonesboro.org and let them know you support the proposal to move sexually explicit materials out of the children’s area at the library.

For more information on this issue, please check out Safe Library Books for Kids on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/606012047072322.

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