Are drop boxes the answer to abortion?

May 16, 2007

There is a new system that opened in a Tokyo hospital called “Stork’s Cradle”. This Catholic run hospital set up drop-boxes in the hopes of discouraging parents to abandon their children in parks, and other public places that are potentially harmful to them.

This drop-box system allows anyone to drop off their children to an incubator through a small hatch and it was opened 24 hours a day. The purpose is to receive newborn children.

Although the goal was to discourage abortion, one cannot help but think that on the other hand it might trigger an influx of child abandonment. I cant help but think it might be construed as an easy way out rather than as a last resort.

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