Reply #75: Thing is,

[tavalon]

this is the punish mode again. Yes, some of these people who abandon babies are monsters, most are terrified children who conceived. Terrified being the operative word, they aren't able to think, they don't think, they are just trying to make the problem go away. Badly, I'll admit. But the solution, IMHO, is to create programs like we had in, of all places, San Antonio, TX where a mother could come to the emergency rooms anywhere in the city and leave their newborn baby or even few day old baby, no questions asked and no legal danger to the mother. It was heavily advertised in English and Spanish (we have a huge Hispanic population in SA). It made a very significant impact in the abandoned baby problem.

Why can't we work to solve the problem instead of punishing it after the fact?