Amiable voices emanate from the room, laughs and cheers of delight run through the hallways as a new mother hears her newborn’s cry for the first time. Down the street from the warm place of new beginnings, an ending is starting, as another new mom silently leaves her baby in the dumpster, unable to care for the helpless infant. This scene takes place worldwide, with the total number of infanticides unknown, but thousands are found dead each and every year. Since the early nineteen hundreds various European countries have instilled “boxes” at places like fire and police stations for mothers to anonymously drop their children off, and this trend is expanding, with even the state of Indiana catching on. Around the world, the trend of using “drop …show more content…
First off, there needs to be a lift on the severe restrictions and complicated procedures for adoptions. Some American families who face difficulties with the severely restricted adoption practices in the US turn to internationally sources to do so, much to no avail. Just from 2009 to 2014 adoptions have dropped 60%, not because of a declined want to do so, but a declined ability through regulations and rules to do so (Russell). Thousands more children lives could be saved if their parents were persuaded by the ability to ensure a good life for their children through the potential to be adopted. Furthermore, through it is controversial, an increase allowance of abortions could prevent babies lies from being ruined in much worse ways, especially in cases of rape or unwanted pregnancies. A study by the Guttmacher Institute found that out of a sample of 1,209 abortion patients, 73% game the reason behind their choice as they could not afford the baby presently (Finer). More than fifty countries around the world prevent abortions based on socioeconomic factors, leaving women with few choices (Finer). Moreover, birth control, if more frequently used and followed, would decrease the amount of unplanned pregnancies in the first place, decreasing the amount of infants in terrible situations in the first place. In Kenya, only the rich are able to easily come across the access to birth control, compared to the poor who have “almost three times the unmet need” for the birth control (Campbell). Governments need to help those who really do have in an interest in using contraceptives which would thus help decrease the need for the women to make the tough decisions on abortion or the killing of their child (because of a lack of facilities for abortions). In brief, women worldwide need to be given more options that are alternatives