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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 06:00 pm (UTC)'cause if it's the first group, I don't suspect their birth control choices come into it unless they're all getting pregnant and then abandoning the child. If it's the second, I don't think Catholicism necessarily informs their birth control and abortion choices.
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Date: 2007-05-20 01:20 am (UTC)You've missed my point. Catholics don't have the choice of birth control and abortion. They shouldn't have to be forced to do it any more than you should be forced to kill your living children. (Which is another perfectly valid solution to the problem... but our society doesn't like that one.)
I understood that the hospital was run by Catholics. The facilities are presumably available to anyone who needs them. Why wouldn't they be? (How could they not be if it's anonymous?)
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Date: 2007-05-20 07:09 am (UTC)It seems that you are using "these people" to mean the Catholics who are running the hospital (which consists of more than a drop-off point, and I am prepared to bet good money that the hospital does not treat all its patients), and the solution that they are going with is offering a safe abandonment location to other people who have unwanted children.
My point is that the birth control/abortion choices of the Catholics running the hospital aren't at all relevant to the production of the unwanted children.