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Topic	The GOP solution to all those forced births resulting from banned abortions
adjl 08/07/22 10:05:51 AM #8:	Far-Queue posted... Because that's the only other option? Dumb comment. Maybe allowing access to health care and abortion, improving sex education, and offering contraception are better alternatives to averting unwanted pregnancies, rather than forced births and safe havens... Maybe not forcing people to make the desperate and difficult decision to abandon their baby to begin with is better but you know hey dumpster babies is the only logical alternative to some people I guess While all of that is true, I still wouldn't say that a baby drop box is necessarily a bad idea. Even if you make sure abortion is readily available, provide contraception to everyone that wants it, and improve health care to the point where there's zero risk associated with giving birth, there will still be cases of parents ending up in the position of feeling that they need to abandon their baby, for whatever reason. In those cases, having an anonymous option like this is going to be more comfortable for a lot of people than having to interact with somebody (given the feelings of shame and failure often associated with this decision), and this has the potential to be a much safer anonymous option than dropping the baby off in a dumpster or on the doorstep of a convent or whatever other options a desperate parent might otherwise choose. It seems ridiculous on the first pass, and it absolutely does not in any way excuse or justify anti-abortion laws (if anything, it draws even more attention to how harmful they are by highlighting the fact that they create the need for something like this), but I can see some value in it in a broader sense. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:967135213] in The GOP so... [t:80120912]...</cite> <quote>Far-Queue posted... </cite><quote>Because that's the only other option? Dumb comment.Maybe allowing access to health care and abortion, improving sex education, and offering contraception are better alternatives to averting unwanted pregnancies, rather than forced births and safe havens... Maybe not forcing people to make the desperate and difficult decision to abandon their baby to begin with is better but you know hey dumpster babies is the only logical alternative to some people I guess</quote>While all of that is true, I still wouldn't say that a baby drop box is necessarily a bad idea. Even if you make sure abortion is readily available, provide contraception to everyone that wants it, and improve health care to the point where there's zero risk associated with giving birth, there will still be cases of parents ending up in the position of feeling that they need to abandon their baby, for whatever reason. In those cases, having an anonymous option like this is going to be more comfortable for a lot of people than having to interact with somebody (given the feelings of shame and failure often associated with this decision), and this has the potential to be a much safer anonymous option than dropping the baby off in a dumpster or on the doorstep of a convent or whatever other options a desperate parent might otherwise choose.It seems ridiculous on the first pass, and it absolutely does not in any way excuse or justify anti-abortion laws (if anything, it draws even more attention to how harmful they are by highlighting the fact that they create the need for something like this), but I can see some value in it in a broader sense. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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