This is sad.
In Queens, a 23-year-old woman gave birth to a baby in a hospital bathroom. She then proceeded to PUT THE BABY IN THE TRASHCAN and then leave the hospital!! Luckily, someone found the baby soon enough and she's recovering. They identified the woman from security cameras and arrested her when she CAME BACK to the hospital get treatment.
Thank God this baby is still alive! Why are people so stupid!? There are Safe Haven laws for situations like this. If you don't want your child or feel you can't care for the child, you can drop the baby off at any hospital, police station, or fire station, no questions asked. The worst part is she was AT A HOSPITAL! Honey, just have the child and tell them you don't want her. It's sad but you won't get in trouble for it. Now you face jail time.
I hate hearing stories like this. For one, there are so many women out there who can't have children and would do anything to be able to. Then you have people like this who take advantage of their fertility and dump their newborns in trashcans because they don't want them, and most of the time, the newborns don't live. For two, there's the Safe Haven laws. It baffles me how women don't realize this. Yes, I understand they are probably panicking when they give birth but to just kill the child rather than give it a chance is outrageous! There are so many couples and families out there that would take in a newborn in a heartbeat! So many women who would cherish the opportunity to be pregnant. It hurts them to see other women be so heartless towards newborns.
This woman was AT A HOSPITAL!! I just don't understand why she went about it this way. The hospital would have taken care of the little girl. She didn't have to do this. They made the Safe Haven law for a reason; so this wouldn't happen.
I just wish women would stop freaking out and killing babies and realize there's other alternatives. Having a baby changes your life. But in cases like this, the women end up in prison. Not the way lives usually change when a baby is born. Instead of diapers, baby talk, and cute clothes, those women are living in 8' by 9' cells, eating bad food, and picking out their new girlfriends. Definitely not a pleasant lifestyle.
