"Our firefighters believe every baby deserves a home. We are proud to be able to do our part to ensure this baby finds their forever home."
Said Fire Chief David Haboush, quoted in "3rd newborn surrendered to same Safe Haven Baby Box in 5 weeks" (nbc15.com).
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every baby DOES deserve a home!!
No baby deserves a vacuum cleaner
Another baby saved!
Nice that they aren't dumped in a garbage can I guess but, I'm sorry, "Safe Haven Baby Box Drop Off" is some sick shit.
Wow. Just...wow. I had no idea there was a national network like this. So much is said about our society knowing this is out there- good and bad. It is so much better than reading a story about another baby found in a dumpster.
I'm glad the mothers, whoever they are, and whatever hurt and terror they are going through, had enough love for the baby to give it a chance at a life.
“19 babies have been surrendered inside Safe Haven Baby Boxes since 2017.”
Every baby deserves to be loved and raised by the father and mother that created him. This arrangement seems to be considered now a privilege instead of a right, a unicorn instead of a flock. We must restore this ideal to its proper place for the good of the child and of society. All that being said, God bless the Carmen fire dept.
This is a good idea...
@Ice Nine: Nice that they aren't dumped in a garbage can I guess but, I'm sorry, "Safe Haven Baby Box Drop Off" is some sick shit.
Esposito. Italian — surname commonly denoting a foundling, meaning literally 'exposed' (Latin expositus, past participle of exponere'to place outside'). At the present day this is the commonest surname in Naples and fourth in Italy as a whole.
The author James Michener was found in a basket left on the front porch of the woman who raised him. He never knew who his biological parents were.
Ima start dropping my kitten litters there. Do you think they'd mind? It's a lot closer than the river and with the price of gas now and all...
Good for the fire-fighters.
Seems like hospitals should also take this up; like non-volunteer fire stations, they are always staffed, 24/7, and that's where the babies are going to be taken for evaluation, anyway. One-stop service.
Ice Nine said...
Nice that they aren't dumped in a garbage can I guess but, I'm sorry, "Safe Haven Baby Box Drop Off" is some sick shit.
5/19/22, 9:59 AM
Better than being torn apart in the womb and vacuumed out!!
May God bless the mother for protecting life.
"We are proud to be able to do our part to ensure this baby finds their forever home."
The firefighters never changed the baby or he's trying to be politically correct?
BTW Blogger marks "this baby...their" as grammatically incorrect.
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All six my children were anonymous drop-offs. I imagine that the parents cared enough to make sure they were taken care of. I bet all of them would be brought to tears of joy if they could see what happened to their children now. I would adopt more but for the tremendous cost of adoption.
All children deserve to be loved and cared for. It is best when people can raise their own, but it is not always possible, the rest of us should be willing to support the alternatives when it is necessary rather than condemning those placed in undesirable predicaments. It's that kind of condemnation that drives people to abortion who might otherwise choose adoption.
we've had this in iowa, for a long time now.
Don't want your baby? Just drop it off at the firestation
BUT! it IS much less convenient than dropping by Planned Parenthood for an IDX
It is a pretty huge honor that someone would entrust you with their baby.
Hey Skipper -- Yes, thanks, I understand the long-existing fact of foundlings. I'm referring to this facile, cold, mechanized, depositing aspect of it.
Wendybar -- Straw Man
"Ice Nine said...
Nice that they aren't dumped in a garbage can I guess but, I'm sorry, "Safe Haven Baby Box Drop Off" is some sick shit.
5/19/22, 9:59 AM
Better than being torn apart in the womb and vacuumed out!!"
This is more about a failure to abort earlier rather than some deep compassion for the child growing in my womb stuff.
And while the Baby Box is laudable and definitely not sick shit on the part of the folks that are trying to save these unwanted children, it's also Dickensian as hell.
In my young day societal progress was assumed as a given. This was before people 10-15 years my senior were given the opportunity to absolutely trash the place.
Very commendable, except for the Chief's absurd grammar.
"We are proud to be able to do our part to ensure this baby finds their forever home."
The firefighters never changed the baby or he's trying to be politically correct?
Or baby is a stand in for all the babies that were denied to planned parent/hood; their individual dignity, value, and care; and "their" refers and emphasizes their plurality and diversity (numeric, not color).
Wouldn't it make more sense to sell them for parts?
How long before the practice is outlawed?
People have been abandoning babies for millennia.
Ensuring that the babies can be dropped off somewhere they can be taken care of and placed with a family is a good thing.
Those who oppose abortion have long said that adoption is an alternative for the young woman who is not prepared to take care of a baby. Given the large number of people who want to adopt, this seems like a choice that should be encouraged.
Of course, it also casts a somewhat different light on our hostess' concern with "weeks". The question becomes, how many weeks of pregnancy is it reasonable to expect a young woman to endure, rather than kill her baby. One? One and a half?
You gals talk it out.
Wasn't Quasimodo abandoned in the cradle before the cathedral of Notre Dame?
I suppose the fire station has taken the place of the Convent. Probably more of them.
Bob Boyd said...
Ima start dropping my kitten litters there. Do you think they'd mind? It's a lot closer than the river and with the price of gas now and all...
You know, you could be generating electricity to power street lamps in DC with all those unwanted kittens. Also, bushmeat.
Wasn't Quasimodo abandoned in the cradle before the cathedral of Notre Dame?
Notre Dame, along with most Medieval churches and monasteries had a feature built into the outer wall that worked like a dumbwaiter or a lazy-susan -- a turntable affair that allowed a desperate mother to surrender her child to the Church anonymously and without shame. The woman placed her baby on the platform and turned it through 180 degrees to face inwards, then she rang a bell, alerting the clerics within to the baby's presence. Such foundlings were reared at Church expense and were often apprenticed to one of the temporal offices. Victor Hugo's character was apprenticed to the bellringer, but there were many such temporal offices, including tiler, glazier, carpenter, blacksmith, sexton, and plumber, a lead-smith rather than a plumber in the modern sense.
I think this is one of society's occasional great ideas. It doesn't right a 'wrong', but it does provide a solution at the expense of worse things.
There's a priest in South Korea who has been doing a Drop Box for a while. Most of his babies are handicapped in some way.
It's a good doc but it made me cry.
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