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[theweaselking]

So there's a Japanese Catholic hospital.

They don't like abortion, predictably, but they have a relatively sensible take on it for Catholics: rather than just working to ban it, they try to actually address the causes of abortion and came up with a novel solution they hoped would reduce both the number of people who want abortions *and* the number of babies who die from being abandoned.

Their solution: "The Stork's Cradle", a place where unwanted newborns could be dropped off anonymously - allowing parents to have their child adopted, and hopefully reducing the number of abandoned babies left in dangerous places, or where they would not be found in time.

It opened last Thursday.

On the first day of operation, they also had their first drop-off: A toddler, approximately three years old, who was only able to tell the police that he'd come there with "daddy", that he'd taken the train with his daddy to the city and that he really didn't know where home was, or what his daddy's name is.

Comments

[anivair.livejournal.com]

Another good reason for mandatory sex ed that is factual and scientific, not religious and stupid.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, it's a good idea.

But it doesn't currently exist, and catlin was explaining why people might *currently* not use birth control or put their babies up for adoption. It's not that some of the problems she addressed can't be worked on or fixed. It's that they are problems, and there are reasons (or causes) why not everyone uses BC, and not everyone who gets pregnant carries it to term and then gives it up.

She's (I thought) just trying to offer a little perspective to someone who says they don't understand why people don't behave in a perfectly sensible and reasonable way.

[anivair.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get her point. And she's right from that point of view. It just bothers me that the point of view is so backwards in the first place. As far as I'm concerned when your backwards point of view starts hurting other people, then someone needs to alter your point of view rapidly.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Hmh. How about when your backwards point of view starts hurting you? 'cause there are people who won't use birth control even though it makes their own lives harder, and the question of when it's thier POV versus one they've been taught... agh.

(Also, as far as I can tell in the case of the hospital, the Catholic point of view appears to be *helping* other people.)

But yeah. If you're going to alter a POV, it helps to know where it's coming from.

[anivair.livejournal.com]

I'm all in favor of letting people hurt themselves. But it's sticky where parents are concerned because your kids don't know any better, or don't have the ability to stand up. Or in this case, would not ever have existed in the first place.