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May. 16th, 2007 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingSo 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.
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.
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Date: 2007-05-17 04:48 am (UTC)I never said this service was a bad thing, mind you. And you are right, you do have to do something about the "symptoms"...
Indeed, the mothers' probably do go through quite a bit of torment.. Except for the occasional nutjob that feels no remorse. (I have heard of mothers that do not feel anything for ridding themselves of their child, I find this appalling. A friend of mind had to answer to social services about one of these such "mothers"..)
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Date: 2007-05-17 04:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-17 04:56 am (UTC)As I said before, I'm just against this feeling that people can do what they want and to hell with the consequences. (Yes, I know this does not apply to everyone, but it does apply to some, and that bugs me.)
Damn humans.
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Date: 2007-05-17 11:08 am (UTC)Damn humans indeed.