Sometimes have to wonder about the human race

Hobbes

Drop-Off Point for Unwanted Babies
.c The Associated Press

HAMBURG, Germany (AP) - Desperate mothers who do not want their babies will soon be able to drop them off anonymously through a chute at a Hamburg day care center, under a project being launched by a youth help organization.
When placed into the chute, a baby will fall into a warm bed and be placed in the program's care, project leader Heider Kaiser said. Mothers have eight weeks to rethink their decision, she said.
The program was devised to give women an alternative to abandoning or even killing their babies when they can't or don't want to keep them, Kaiser said.
In the United States, Minnesota has introduced a similar program and Los Angeles is discussing one. A baby drop also exists in South Africa.
There were several abandoned baby cases in Hamburg last year, including one in which a newborn was found dead in a trash container.
Twenty newborns are abandoned in Germany every year, and about half them die, said Friedhelm Guethoff of the Children's Protection Agency in Wuppertal.
``The women in these panicked situations had secret pregnancies because there were massive family conflicts involved,'' Guethoff said. These women gave birth in bathrooms and parks, and feel they need to get rid of their babies before anyone finds out, he said.
With the project launch three weeks away, it was still unclear if the city government endorsed the project.
Conservative local politicians criticized the project Tuesday as inhuman.
``Charges must be brought against the first person who leaves their child there,'' Viviane Spethmann, a city councilor for the Christian Democrats, told the Bild newspaper.
But local Roman Catholic bishop Hans-Jochen Jaschke said the project was a good sign for society.
``Every person needs a chance to live,'' he said. ``It's always better to help people than to condemn them.''

Draco

It's a sad fact that these things are needed

Draco

Shinji

It's a hell of a sight better than abortion, or abandoning the child in a skip or under a bush somewhere.

I'm all for it. There are thousands of couples out there who for various reasons cannot concieve but would love a child, and there are never enough babies to be adopted, yet abortions and abandoned newborns are rife. This system gives the kids - and the parent - a much better chance.

(Oh, and it's not a "chute". Anyone who saw it on the news yesterday will have seen that it's not that inhumane at all; it's a large flap in the door which can be lifted and the baby placed inside onto a soft bed.)

Ja,
Rob

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Wyverne

me just being paranoid an all, but i reckon that there cameras fupin everywhere an when da B!atch drops off the baby shes then arrested and put in prison, or at least back in da kitchen.

SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED LEAVE DA KITCHEN

and its irrelevant if its a good idea, society shoukld not have been allowed to reach this stage of moralistic emptiness and social depravity
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H-K

talk about throw away society ? disposable babies ? ahh shure ill just throw it in the baby bank for someone to get.
sure its better than abortion but who said abortion was good