Imagining that baby drop boxes would be the answer for women who are unable or unwilling to raise a child is naïve at best and will do nothing to improve the condition of these abandoned children. Justices Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett: Our foster care system is a very expensive American tragedy. Add to that the cost of supporting unaccompanied homeless youth (that includes kids from the foster care), which runs at an annual cost of up to $50,000 per child, and the burden to taxpayers is enormous. The foster system runs at a cost of $9 billion per year. Many of these young people end up homeless. However approximately 50 percent of children in the system do not graduate.

But I was one of the lucky ones I graduated from high school. I was no Little Orphan Annie singing about the sunshine.

I started at an orphanage and was then passed from foster care home to foster care home. I was dropped into the foster care system at the age of 1. I hope this article galvanizes those who have not yet joined the fight to regain women’s rights to awaken and do so. I understand that it is a safer alternative to just dumping the newborn, but very few women do that, and to see it as a solution that is preferable to abortion is heartless and impractical. This drop box concept is cruel, traumatizing and soul-destroying and would merely exacerbate the feelings of guilt, sorrow and loss these women experience.

To part with that baby is unbearably painful to most women. I don’t think I have read an article that more clearly epitomizes how dystopian this country is becoming.Ĭan pro-life proponents be so intent on preventing a loss of “life” by abortion that they are blind to the damage caused to a woman who has been forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to have her then drop her baby into a receptacle similar to a trash chute?ĭuring pregnancy, even an unwanted one, most women develop an attachment to and feelings for the fetus growing inside her. 7), about the use of drop boxes for unwanted babies: Re “ With Roe Gone, a Safe Alternative for Desperate Mothers” (news article, Aug.

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