Almost every day we read news of babies being dumped or foetuses being dumped and as a mother, each time I read such news, I cringed. It hurts to see cute little babies being treated like rubbish. So, of course, there are a lot of outraged people calling for those who dump babies to be sentenced to death.
Well, I personally feel that introducing a death penalty for cases like is the worst ever proposal to resolve this problem. What we have now is more of a social problem rather than a criminal one. Instead of thinking about punishment, more thought and actions should be put into preventing it AND ensuring that the lives of these babies are spared. It is obvious that these women are spurred by desperation when they dump their illegal babies.
If they introduce a death penalty for this, then more babies will suffer as these women will be even more desperate to hide it and they will probably do worse things to get rid of the babies! So, the main priority here is not to punish but to provide a safe haven for these babies.
Like it or not, people are having sex out of wedlock and single women get pregnant everyday. No matter what law you impose, how much you frown upon it, it still happens. So, no point, sweeping it all under the carpet and pretend that our youngsters are are virginal saints. How else do you think these women end up pregnant and desperate?
What needs to be done now is to set up more centres to counsel and help these women. Obviously, they have nowhere to go so they resort to hiding their pregnancies and dumping the babies. They are desperate and they do not know where to go or what to do. Their babies are innocent. They deserve to live and the priority here is to ensure that these babies live!
Why is there so much objection to establishing hatches for unwanted babies? At the very least these hatches will ensure that babies are not dumped into rubbish bins or left to die. All this just because some stupid idiot thinks that hatches promote promiscuous behaviour. Err…hello, in case you haven’t noticed, unmarried couples are still doing it and getting pregnant out-of-wedlock now even without hatches!
Of course, society is to be blamed for these baby dumping cases too. It is when these desperate women are shunned, ignored and pushed to a corner that they had no where else to go but down the very wrong road of getting rid of their ‘mistake’.
So, lets stop this pointing fingers and condemning of the poor, desperate women. No mother, whether she wanted the baby or not, will resort to killing or abandoning her own flesh and blood if she was not pushed to a corner where she could not think straight at all. Also don’t forget that it takes two to make a baby so don’t just blame the mothers! What about the men? Why were they let off scot-free? Why were they not held responsible?
Sigh. The worse of these incidences is when politicians jump in to give their two cents worth of stupidity. They will blame anything, everything BUT find solutions to prevent and protect these innocent babies?
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