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Topic: Europe mulls banning
´boxes´ for abandoned babies |
Europe mulls banning
´boxes´ for abandoned babies
Associated Press, by David Rising and Maria Cheng
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Posted By:NorthernDog, 11/25/2012 10:43:43 AM
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| BERLIN — German pastor Gabriele Stangl says she will never forget the harrowing confession she heard in 1999. A woman said she had been brutally raped, got pregnant and had a baby. Then she killed it and buried it in the woods near Berlin. Stangl wanted to do something to help women in such desperate situations. So the following year, she convinced Berlin´s Waldfriede Hospital to create the city´s first so-called "baby box." The box is actually a warm incubator that can be opened from an outside wall of a hospital where a desperate parent can anonymously
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
JAN, 11/25/2012 10:52:04 AM (No. 9032987)
Dear G-d, these ´mull´ers are ensuring there will be more abortions.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Elvira, 11/25/2012 11:14:30 AM (No. 9033009)
These "Rights" groups never think things through. How long did the mother "mull" over the decision to give birth to and then give up her baby?? A LOT longer than the act of giving birth itself, I´d bet.
These good doers always go, oops, when unintended consequences occur. Like more babies murdered, sold to God knows who. With the austerity measures this will get worse, not better. It´s a good thing this is a salon cause I´m so ready to throw out a saloon word or three.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
rabbit, 11/25/2012 11:27:03 AM (No. 9033030)
The adoption agencies have gone with the "open adoption" craze. Some people love it; others hate it. It is very difficult today for a birthmother to give up a child for adoption anonymously. Some birthmothers truly need to be able to get on with their life. We adoptive parents truly thank them for the gift of life for their young ones.
The child´s #1 ´right´ is to life. Anything that gets in the way of that is wrong.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
fiddle ed, 11/25/2012 12:30:30 PM (No. 9033129)
The act of a mother to give up her child for whatever reason should be compassionately simple as possible. The same is true for adoption.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
stealthy, 11/25/2012 12:46:09 PM (No. 9033153)
No wonder God is mad at us.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JLoophole, 11/26/2012 4:45:18 AM (No. 9033860)
Fta: However, limited academic surveys suggest this hasn´t reduced the murder of infants. There are about 30 to 60 infanticides in Germany every year, a number that has been relatively unchanged for years, even after the arrival of baby boxes.
What kind of connection is this?! One has absolutely nothing to do with the other. The parent who gives up her child is by definition not the parent who murders her child.
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