Will someone please tell me what the hell trashcan babies have to do with natural miscarriages? I mean. . . what? WHAT?
*takes a few deep breath* Mister Law-maker, if you have an issue with babies being abandoned by their mothers -- which I will happily acknowledge as a problem -- why not set up a system like they have in, what is it, California? And Texas, for God's sake? Here, from the Nov. 2002 Reader's Digest:
A young El Monte, CA, woman dropped her healthy newborn at an emergency room entrance and disappeared. "People were outraged that a mother could abandon her baby like that," recalls [Debi] Faris, "and I was outraged they didn't see that she had cared enough to leave her child in a safe place." Faris called a local TV news reporter and asked why police were pursuing the El Monte woman, who had done the right thing. "I'm sorry, Ms. Faris," the reporter responded. "That's the law."
[Faris] learned that Texas had already passed a safe-haven law, and other states were introducing such bills. Babies can now be surrendered, and the mothers won't be persecuted for it.
So, Mr. Law-Maker, GET A CLUE. God. . . . And my red badge of courage arrived today, too.
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Date: 2005-01-06 10:55 pm (UTC)*takes a few deep breath* Mister Law-maker, if you have an issue with babies being abandoned by their mothers -- which I will happily acknowledge as a problem -- why not set up a system like they have in, what is it, California? And Texas, for God's sake? Here, from the Nov. 2002 Reader's Digest:
A young El Monte, CA, woman dropped her healthy newborn at an emergency room entrance and disappeared. "People were outraged that a mother could abandon her baby like that," recalls [Debi] Faris, "and I was outraged they didn't see that she had cared enough to leave her child in a safe place." Faris called a local TV news reporter and asked why police were pursuing the El Monte woman, who had done the right thing. "I'm sorry, Ms. Faris," the reporter responded. "That's the law."
[Faris] learned that Texas had already passed a safe-haven law, and other states were introducing such bills. Babies can now be surrendered, and the mothers won't be persecuted for it.
So, Mr. Law-Maker, GET A CLUE. God. . . . And my red badge of courage arrived today, too.