February 4, 2012
Published: 27 Nov 09 11:07 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20091127-23559.html
Germany’s baby hatches, which allow mothers to give up their children anonymously, have been called into question by the German Ethics Council, which has deemed them morally “problematic.”
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Are you nuts, what does this have to do with socialism. Even if it did have anything to do with socialism, your argumentation is destroyed by infant mortality and abandonment in 'democratic' (single quotes for ambiguity not sarcasm) societies like the U.S.
I fail to see how protecting the life a born child is removing responsibility. Sort of a zero sum issue.
Marxism by the way is not the same thing as Socialism. Regardless of what your saviour Beck tells you.
In any case, you don't leave much to respond to so I'll assume you have nothing more to say. Next time, maybe you should try to get your talking points out of the records of factual events and books rather than stock phrases provided by undereducated professional opinionists with zero real world experience outside the U.S.
I don't doubt the baby hatch system has saved these young lives.
Vangi33: Take a closer look at signage William Thirteen loves so much. The baby is placed in a crib, not a metal box. (When the hatch is opened an alarm goes off in the building so a worker can collect the child immediately. I don't doubt a camera is set up on the other side of the wall where the crib sits so that workers can see the baby as another goes to collect it.) This should have been obvious.
Cincinnatus is an idiot. I'm an American capitalist pig and educated in the US, and I still believe the Babyklappen system is a wise and compassionate thing to have.