Baby Post (Baby hatch)

In today's blog, I would like to share a topic with you which is about 'Baby post'.

I presume everyone has heard about Baby Post before since this topic is most talked about on TV now.

The main concept of this Baby Post system is that 'Is this morally right or wrong to use this system?'

No one, at this point, know the answer to that.

Proposal argument:http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/rc20070610a5.html

A person who wrote this comment, agrees with this system. He gave an example of abandoned baby who was given a birth by Junior High School girl and her boyfriend and unfortunately had died by being left in an open-air location.

He believes that with this epoch-making system, they can save numerous numbers of abandoned child.

As he added in his comment at the end, he said 'baby hatch is not the perfect answer, but at least it offers a chance of life to abandoned babies who otherwise may die hours after birth in dreadful circumstances.'

This comment convinces me that every human being should have given chances to live their lives. That's why we were born. That's why we should use this system.

Against:http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/rc20070530a1.html

This comment is written by a person who is against this system.

She used to work for children and families and now, she works for disabled adults who were abandoned by their families.

She argues that, people will become even more irresponsible about their babies with this system. She believes that this system will encourage more people to abandone their babies since parents can choose to remain anonymous about their identities.

From her experience, she knows that what abandoned people are like and how they live their lives.

Her experience makes me believe that, abandoned people (no matter how old they are), are forced to live hard lives. It's worse when they are abandoned from their real families because they feel rejected from the closest people in their lives.


My opinion:
I am totally against this system. This is because I believe that this system will only encourage those irresponsible people who abandon their babies so easily. There are maybe some people who can't raise their babies because of their economic status and other sorts of problems. However, my point is that these people are so selfish. Babies didn't choose to be born. It was the parents' choice to give give birth to babies.

In Japan, they have a trend towards having fewer children which is a serious problem. However, on the other hand, more and more young teen age people get pregnent and to have either an abortion or fail to raise their babies so end up killing them.Therefore I strongly agree with the opposition idea.