Babies, how we love 'em

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Mon Apr 10 03:26:07 PDT 2000


[At least this is the first baby drop-box since 1758 (See Donzelot, _The Policing of Families_, p. 26.) It's so nice to get back to these old-timey family values.]

- Nation's first "baby drop-box" installed in Hamburg

Hamburg. Germany's first so-called "baby drop-box" was put into service today. In Hamburg, desperate women can now drop off their newborn children anonymously and without fearing criminal prosecution. The infants will be laid into a warmed bed behind a steel hatch. Sensors will alert medical personnel which will rush to care for the baby. The baby drop-box is meant to prevent children from dying as a result of being abandoned somewhere.



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