Up until the early 2000s and all throughout the 1990s, there were several cases in Germany in which dead babies were found throughout public parks in conservative regions all throughout germany. Not because abortion is illegal but because the social pressure against it and against giving up a child is so high in those regions that many young mothers who couldnt afford to take care of a child, simply left it in a park in the hope someone would find it. Needless to say, that most of the babies died.
The goverments solution was "Babyklappe" a box on a wall at every hospital in Germany where a mother could anonymously give her child away without risking it`s death.
For me the case is clear, the "abortion issue" isnt as much about abortion and the rights of a fetus as it is about parenting and the social situation of mothers.
Something which most people who call themselves "pro life" love to ignore. People who oppose abortion seem to think that being pregnant and giving birth are the only things required for the mother to do. And then sometimes even point out that "a mother can always give her child into an orphanage" as if this were the most easy and untraumatic thing for a mother to do.
I guess I would really like to point out the hypocracy behind being against abortion and at the same time condeming every single kind of social program which could exist - because it could be socialist. Aswell as the supidity behind oposing sexual education and cotraception which is meant to prohibit such situations.
The goverments solution was "Babyklappe" a box on a wall at every hospital in Germany where a mother could anonymously give her child away without risking it`s death.
For me the case is clear, the "abortion issue" isnt as much about abortion and the rights of a fetus as it is about parenting and the social situation of mothers.
Something which most people who call themselves "pro life" love to ignore. People who oppose abortion seem to think that being pregnant and giving birth are the only things required for the mother to do. And then sometimes even point out that "a mother can always give her child into an orphanage" as if this were the most easy and untraumatic thing for a mother to do.
I guess I would really like to point out the hypocracy behind being against abortion and at the same time condeming every single kind of social program which could exist - because it could be socialist. Aswell as the supidity behind oposing sexual education and cotraception which is meant to prohibit such situations.
