2007年 05月 11日
Great Gift for Mother's Day: Japan's first 'baby hatch' opens to controversy [AFP, 2007-05-10]
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What a Grief! The next Sunday is coming Mother's Day. Now your girl can post her baby into the box freely and lawfully just like you abandon a trash into trash box as the baby is supposedly unwanted. This measure cannot be acceptable in our culture/country. Beyond shameful, rather said to be satanic. In the first place it is clearly unlawful in every clause of our law. Perhaps all our jurists are dead. Is it coincident that only three states in the world, Germany, Italy and Japan, all the Axis of WWII allow the baby trash? Isn't it the symptom of our going into fascist state? We have no politicians taking responsible to the nation. Miserable! What's a beautiful country.
Japan's first 'baby hatch' opens to controversy
www.breitbart.com, May 10 03:42 AM US/Eastern
Japan's first "baby hatch", where parents can drop off unwanted infants anonymously, opened Thursday despite opposition from the conservative national government.
The baby hatch, modelled on a project in Germany, went into operation at a Roman Catholic hospital in the city of Kumamoto, some 900 kilometres (560 miles) southwest of Tokyo.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has urged Japan to return to "family values," opposed the idea but found no legal grounds to stop it.
"A mother must not leave her child or abandon him or her anonymously," Abe told reporters.
"I want mothers to seek help first if they have problems," said Abe, who is childless after unsuccessful attempts with his wife Akie.
Government spokesman Yasuhisa Shiozaki added: "Even at a hospital facility, abandoning a baby still should not be tolerated.
"It is the government's role to help parents raise children on their own."
Since the hospital announced plans to set up the hatch in November, it has reportedly received about 40 inquiries.
Advocates say the plan, if replicated, could help boost the dwindling birth rate in Japan, where abortion is widely accepted.
The city of Kumamoto approved the Jikei Hospital's plan in April after deciding it did not violate any laws.
Called "the cradle of storks," the hatch is set into the wall of the hospital's lobby like a mailbox.
It has a door, 50 centimetres (20 inches) by 60 centimetres (24 inches), with a drawing of two storks carrying a baby and a message reading, "Please leave something with the baby."
When the door is opened, a nurse is alerted by an alarm. There is an intercom next to the door to encourage parents to contact hospital staff.
"When I saw a simulation, in which a baby doll was placed into the hatch, I again felt determined that we must build a society in which this hatch will never be needed," Kumamoto Mayor Seishi Kouyama said, as quoted by Jiji Press.
No babies were left in the hatch during the first hours that it was open.
Japan's first 'baby hatch' opens to controversy
www.breitbart.com, May 10 03:42 AM US/Eastern
Japan's first "baby hatch", where parents can drop off unwanted infants anonymously, opened Thursday despite opposition from the conservative national government.
The baby hatch, modelled on a project in Germany, went into operation at a Roman Catholic hospital in the city of Kumamoto, some 900 kilometres (560 miles) southwest of Tokyo.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has urged Japan to return to "family values," opposed the idea but found no legal grounds to stop it.
"A mother must not leave her child or abandon him or her anonymously," Abe told reporters.
"I want mothers to seek help first if they have problems," said Abe, who is childless after unsuccessful attempts with his wife Akie.
Government spokesman Yasuhisa Shiozaki added: "Even at a hospital facility, abandoning a baby still should not be tolerated.
"It is the government's role to help parents raise children on their own."
Advocates say the plan, if replicated, could help boost the dwindling birth rate in Japan, where abortion is widely accepted.
The city of Kumamoto approved the Jikei Hospital's plan in April after deciding it did not violate any laws.
Called "the cradle of storks," the hatch is set into the wall of the hospital's lobby like a mailbox.
It has a door, 50 centimetres (20 inches) by 60 centimetres (24 inches), with a drawing of two storks carrying a baby and a message reading, "Please leave something with the baby."
When the door is opened, a nurse is alerted by an alarm. There is an intercom next to the door to encourage parents to contact hospital staff.
"When I saw a simulation, in which a baby doll was placed into the hatch, I again felt determined that we must build a society in which this hatch will never be needed," Kumamoto Mayor Seishi Kouyama said, as quoted by Jiji Press.
No babies were left in the hatch during the first hours that it was open.
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| 2007-05-11 21:52
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