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Safe Newborn

cranston36

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The Washington State ‘Safe Newborn’ law has no statistics to go along with it.

If you want you can drop off your baby within three days of birth at any hospital and leave.
Kids in school that at one time could push their ignorant and aggressive boyfriends away with statements about using birth control and not wanting to end up with an abortion can now go ahead, expose themselves to sexually transmitted diseases, get pregnant, have the baby and hand it over to some public hospital.
What happens to that baby?
Is it adopted by religious groups or does it become the ‘ward of the state’?
It is a bizarre and sickening development that hospitals, which don’t even provide reasonably priced services for Americans, should now become foundling hospitals.
It is typical of our broken down government that they would pass a law like this without addressing the root causes of the problems.
In the end women that destroy their newborns will continue to do so because that is a situation that is far beyond the remedy provided by this ‘feel good’ law.
Children will go to bed hungry in Washington State and their parents will do without health care because doctors and hospitals are so greedy that they have priced themselves out of the market.
Insurance companies will continue to feed off the poor and the government will bow to them.
Add abandoning children without fear of retribution to the deep pool of sins that this society swims in.
 
I think it's a good law. I'd rather see a baby dumped at a Hospital or fire station than a dumpster. I'd definitely rather a baby got dropped somewhere safe vs getting abused or dying from shaken baby syndrome. Plus with the so many unwanted pregnancies ending in abortion it has become almost impossible to adopt a healthy baby unless you have tons of money to buy one from another country. So if someone drops off a baby that they can't take care of and it becomes a gift to an infertile couple, god bless it!
 
Show me the statistics for how many children have been saved by this law or how many drug addicts know that it exists or would even care to refer to it in the depths of their despair?

What happened to our laws against drugs?
Illegal immigration?
Equal rights in voting?

This 'law' is a joke and an insult to all but the naive among us.

When was the last time someone in your family took advantage of this law and abandoned a baby of your own blood and line at a public building?

By the way - when was the last time you checked on the statistics of success for the state sponsored orphan or child welfare programs?
 
This OP gets around, doesn't it?
http://english.ohmynews.com/TALK_BACK/bbs_view.asp?ba_code=63&bb_code=277640

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cach...+Newborn"+statistics&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5


As for a response:
How prevalent is newborn abandonment in the United States?


However:


and:
 
How much more would you be willing to pay in taxes each year to feed all the children in the United States three square meals a day?

10 percent?
15 percent?
20 percent?
 
cranston36 said:
How much more would you be willing to pay in taxes each year to feed all the children in the United States three square meals a day?

10 percent?
15 percent?
20 percent?
None. None, should be an option.
 
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