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Today's paper had a thought-provoking article that made me uneasy..what do you think?
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 584921" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>We have that same law here but ours goes a little further. They can be left at fire and police stations and also at hospitals. I would seriously question leaving a newborn at a church. Here at least, most of them sit empty except for a few hours a week. It could be days before a baby was discovered there. And I would think that trying to identify the mother or making the mother hand over the baby to an employee would completely defeat the purpose! Any girl or woman who goes to the extreme length to conceals a pregnancy, then gives birth alone and unattended, is not going to want to be identified or be seen leaving that baby! The law was enacted here as a last ditch effort to save the lives of some of those infants who would otherwise end up in dumpsters or floating in the river, not as a means to persecute the mother. If you take the anonyminity out of it, you totally defeat the purpose. </p><p></p><p>Right now, here in Tennessee, there is a trial going on for a girl who is accused is killing her healthy, normal, newborn twin boys and hiding their bodies in a laundry basket! She was engaged to one man but the father of the babies was another man. She somehow managed to conceal her pregnancy from both her parents and the fiance, then gave birth alone and and smothered both babies. She is claiming mental illness and that she didn't know she was pregnant (with twins!) but the hard drive of her computer shows that she made many pregnancy-related searches during her pregnancy so she obviously did know. Had she chosen to take advantage of the laws, she could have left those babies at a hospital or fire station and they both would be alive and well today. Such a shame.</p><p></p><p>Incidentally, they had to modify these laws in some places to include an age cut-off. People were bringing in their school-age problem kids and even teenagers and leaving them at the police station! Really!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 584921, member: 1883"] We have that same law here but ours goes a little further. They can be left at fire and police stations and also at hospitals. I would seriously question leaving a newborn at a church. Here at least, most of them sit empty except for a few hours a week. It could be days before a baby was discovered there. And I would think that trying to identify the mother or making the mother hand over the baby to an employee would completely defeat the purpose! Any girl or woman who goes to the extreme length to conceals a pregnancy, then gives birth alone and unattended, is not going to want to be identified or be seen leaving that baby! The law was enacted here as a last ditch effort to save the lives of some of those infants who would otherwise end up in dumpsters or floating in the river, not as a means to persecute the mother. If you take the anonyminity out of it, you totally defeat the purpose. Right now, here in Tennessee, there is a trial going on for a girl who is accused is killing her healthy, normal, newborn twin boys and hiding their bodies in a laundry basket! She was engaged to one man but the father of the babies was another man. She somehow managed to conceal her pregnancy from both her parents and the fiance, then gave birth alone and and smothered both babies. She is claiming mental illness and that she didn't know she was pregnant (with twins!) but the hard drive of her computer shows that she made many pregnancy-related searches during her pregnancy so she obviously did know. Had she chosen to take advantage of the laws, she could have left those babies at a hospital or fire station and they both would be alive and well today. Such a shame. Incidentally, they had to modify these laws in some places to include an age cut-off. People were bringing in their school-age problem kids and even teenagers and leaving them at the police station! Really! [/QUOTE]
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