In my today's blog, I would like to talk and think about "baby drop off."Do you accurately know what it means?It is an act of nursing abandonment that mothers leave their unwanted, usually newborn, babies in some respects, such as a locker room, toilet, or even in front of someones front door.In recent years, in Japan, it has becoming a social problem and frequently being picked up on a news program.In 2006, the Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto Prefecture set up the "Stork's Cradle," generally called, the "baby hatch," to reduce the number of abandoned babies and abortions.What is the "baby hatch"?
It is a facility for mothers be able to bring their babies and leave them anonymously in a safe place to be found and cared for.
However, there are pros and cons arguments on this issue.
Letter One: The article written by who disapproves of baby hatch.
The author says that baby hatch is not the answer.
She tells her story of experience she has had which she has worked with children and families for more than twenty years. Additionally, she now works with adults, who are developmentally disabled, had bitter experiences in childhoods and overcame distress.
She asserts that even with the baby hatch, people will continue to abandon children.
Letter Two: The article written by who approves of baby hatch.
The author says that a baby hatch beats alternative.
He tells an event which has happened to a junior high school student and her boyfriend. They got a baby born, but it was abandoned and died because they were full of fear, panic, and had no choice, but to abandon it.
He appeals the possibility of if there had been a baby hatch facility, there would have existed an alternative and their baby might have saved. The baby hatch offers a chance of life to abandoned babies alive.
My response to this issue, I agree with the latter author.
I think the baby hatch is needed in order to save precious lives because babies are not guilty, simply innocent. They cannot choose their parents by themselves. Once they were born, they all have the right to be alive and no one cannot deprive their rights from them. Do not make light of lives, we only have one each and cannot get it back if we loose it.
If parents love their children, I am sure they will not abandon absolutely, or they do not want to part with their dear angels. Therefore, someone says that it is a nursing abandonment, of course it is, unless something serious comes up. There might be some people who have exceptional reasons they cannot raise their children, so to give them a hand, I think the baby hatch is needed to those who need real help.
The declining birth rate has become a big problem in Japan, and importance of life has been inquired. We should think about this issue deeply, earnestly, and deepen our understandings.
