Hospital operator plans to open Tokyo's 1st 'baby hatch' in FY 2024
TOKYO -- A social welfare corporation based in the capital's Sumida Ward revealed on Sept. 28 that it is planning to establish a "baby hatch" at one of its hospitals in the ward in fiscal 2024 to anonymously accept infants whose parents are unable to raise them.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230929/p2a/00m/0na/020000c
The standard joke for this type of thing is: I wonder what the cut off age is or I wonder if it will fit my teenager.
Ok, that out of the way...with the very small birth rate in Japan I doubt it will receive much traffic.
That became a problem for one Midwest state. There wasn’t an age limit, so most of the kids being ditched were older and with significant mental or physical health issues.
State leaders had to amend the bill because they didn’t want to care for children, just use this as a way to justify banning abortions.
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