If not safe haven, then what? Nothing else has worked either except we made it legal to kill it before it's even born to make it easier on them. They don't even choose that.
Public schools teaching safe sex isn't working. Churches preaching don't do it hasn't worked. Now what?
Education at the basic level at health clinics might work better..if they choose to even go to a doctor.
And if they are hiding a pregnancy they need privacy to give birth to keep their secret. It's not just in bathrooms these people are having babies. They find ways to hide a pregnancy, sneaking out of the house or whatever can't be as hard as that.
Nova, I've had ppd 7 times and let me tell ya, sometimes it feels like psychosis. When the hormones start dropping and you feel so not yourself I can understand how some woman can feel desperate. Not desperate enough to kill a baby...my first instinct was to cry to my husband..then again, these woman are not normal so maybe it does manifest itself differently. Who knows. But it would make for an interesting study. I don't think we understand half of what goes on in our own bodies. Or why each experience can be so different.
Personally, I put this squarely in the lap of those who do what they do but I also think education and being open has to help for those that don't end up killing but kept it a secret. Such as my cousin who gave birth in her dorm bathroom all alone. No one knew (she was a very large girl to begin with and looked no different) but I'm glad she didn't go down that road. Esp since it was my cousin and I'd never have known him otherwise.
I'll keep preaching safe haven laws until I'm purple if it saves one small infants life. At least it's better than sitting and doing nothing. I refuse to do nothing.
I'm in an area that has a huge low income, teenaged pregnancy rate. We talk about a lot of things from breast feeding to how to change a diaper. Some I am sure get it. Others are there because they are made to be there. But what if, at a time when they think they don't need or want this information, they find out that it was handy when it comes right down to it?
Public schools teaching safe sex isn't working. Churches preaching don't do it hasn't worked. Now what?
Education at the basic level at health clinics might work better..if they choose to even go to a doctor.
And if they are hiding a pregnancy they need privacy to give birth to keep their secret. It's not just in bathrooms these people are having babies. They find ways to hide a pregnancy, sneaking out of the house or whatever can't be as hard as that.
Nova, I've had ppd 7 times and let me tell ya, sometimes it feels like psychosis. When the hormones start dropping and you feel so not yourself I can understand how some woman can feel desperate. Not desperate enough to kill a baby...my first instinct was to cry to my husband..then again, these woman are not normal so maybe it does manifest itself differently. Who knows. But it would make for an interesting study. I don't think we understand half of what goes on in our own bodies. Or why each experience can be so different.
Personally, I put this squarely in the lap of those who do what they do but I also think education and being open has to help for those that don't end up killing but kept it a secret. Such as my cousin who gave birth in her dorm bathroom all alone. No one knew (she was a very large girl to begin with and looked no different) but I'm glad she didn't go down that road. Esp since it was my cousin and I'd never have known him otherwise.
I'll keep preaching safe haven laws until I'm purple if it saves one small infants life. At least it's better than sitting and doing nothing. I refuse to do nothing.
I'm in an area that has a huge low income, teenaged pregnancy rate. We talk about a lot of things from breast feeding to how to change a diaper. Some I am sure get it. Others are there because they are made to be there. But what if, at a time when they think they don't need or want this information, they find out that it was handy when it comes right down to it?
