WaPo: 'Baby in a dumpster.' A spate of abandoned newborns unsettles Texas.

[Dennis Donovan]

WaPo - (archived: https://archive.ph/Xfocw ) ‘Baby in a dumpster.’ A spate of abandoned newborns unsettles Texas.

Critics say these cases are no coincidence in a state with one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans and near-bottom rankings on women’s health care.

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A quarter century ago, prompted by a spate of abandoned babies in Houston, this state became the first in the country to pass a safe haven law allowing parents to relinquish newborns at designated places — without questions or risk of prosecution. Yet “Baby Moses” surrenders remain rare in Texas, and another series of abandoned infants since spring in the Houston area has prompted much soul-searching.

In June, a baby boy was left next to a clothing donation bin on the city’s southeast side and a baby girl in some bushes in Katy, a western suburb. Both were saved.

By August, two other babies had been found: in an industrial ditch in north Houston and in a trash truck’s compactor in a far northwest neighborhood. Both were dead.

“There apparently has been … a little bit of an epidemic on this,” a Harris County sheriff’s official noted during a media briefing near the ditch where the infant girl’s partially clothed body was discovered in August by a landscaping crew.

Statewide, according to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, at least 18 babies have been abandoned this year. The latest occurred just before Christmas at a Whataburger in San Antonio. A decade ago, the number was seven.

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[Deep State Witch]

1. Gee, Nobody Could Have Predicted This

Oh, wait... we did.

[Rebl2]

2. Not surprised

And very sad.

[Scrivener7]

3. Shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. More of this is going too happen in states where Abortion care access is restricted.

That goes for Pre-natal and Post-natal care as well.

Pro Life my ass.

[hatrack]

5. Well, the TX GOP demanded that we all live in Victorian England . .

And here we are.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. "a little bit of an epidemic"

[GoCubsGo]

7. Keep on rockin' in the Free World.

At least they weren't aborted, right?

[mopinko]

8. 'critics say'. how about 'historians say' u dumb asses. none of this was unforeseen.

it’s a feature, not a bug. many of us were sentient pre-roe and knew damn well what was going to happen.
back then, tho, if u had the baby, u ‘knew’ it cd have a home. (adoption always leaves scars.) now, many babies end up run through the system, and spit out a mess. i dont think i’d want to entrust a baby to the system in any red state.

this is worse than then. then d&c’s were common anyway. if u miscarried, u got 1, whether it was bad or not. most towns had a doc that did them for ‘delayed menses’.

public hospitals used to have septic abortion wards. now that’s a parking lot.
this reign of terror cant last. brutal regimes never do.

[DBoon]

9. How long before Texas makes it illegal to report these cases in the press?

[Old Crank]

10. If the state demands you carry a pregnancy to term

the state needs to pay for the care, feeding and education of that child.
Every parents should get $1,000 per month, per child automatically.