Posted on 06/11/2012 11:52:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, which reports on how well governments respect and protect children's human rights, is alarmed at the prevalence of the hatches – usually outside a hospital – which allow unwanted newborns to be left in boxes with an alarm or bell to summon a carer.
Their proponents draw on the language of the pro-life lobby and claim the baby boxes "protect a child's right to life" and have saved "hundreds of newborns". There are differing opinions on this key social issue across Europe. In France and Holland women have the right to remain anonymous to their babies after giving birth, while in the UK it remains a crime to secretly abandon a child.
However UN officials argue that baby hatches violate key parts of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) which says children must be able to identify their parents and even if separated from them the state has a "duty to respect the child's right to maintain personal relations with his or her parent".
There is evidence that the baby box idea is popular. A Swiss poll in 2011 found 87% saying baby boxes were "very useful or useful" and more than a quarter of respondents thought every hospital should have one.
Herczog said that the committee is undeterred. "We review countries' adherence to the convention. We did Czech Republic. Austria is coming up. I cannot say for sure but I can imagine we will do the same for Austria (as the Czech Republic)".
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What should the UN do in this situation?
Can we have a poll on wether the UN should be banned, please?
And on wether all its creatures should go in a dungeon?
I can kind of agree that it is a violation of the kid’s rights not to be able to identify its parents, but OTOH, it is a vastly superior alternative to slaughtering them, so it is a neccessary evil...
>> “What should the UN do in this situation?” <<
.
The same thing the Deep Space probe in Star Trek did:
Admit that it is defective beyond repair, and detonate itself.
can’t these mothers just find a safe and legal place to dismember these children before they are born?
Mass-suicide of all UN bureaucrats would be a nice start.
-—I can kind of agree that it is a violation of the kid’s rights not to be able to identify its parents, but OTOH, it is a vastly superior alternative to slaughtering them, so it is a neccessary evil...——
Agree.
Does not compute.
The U.N. is an abomination.
Then detonate yourself!
The people who want to block the Baby Boxes are evil. There is no better word to describe them.
Nothing. Not a d-mn thing.
re: “children must be able to identify their parents and even if separated from them the state has a “duty to respect the child’s right to maintain personal relations with his or her parent”.
Well doesn’t that eliminate all closed adoptions (where the child does not know who the birth parents are)? What is the alternative? The UN promotes abortion, which “solves” the problem sufficiently for the UN crowd.
And if the children cannot "maintain personal relations" and "identify their parents", what then? Baby hatches are a "violation" so what, kill them before they are born? Is that their solution? Where is the UN going with this reasoning?
As the mom of 3 adopted kids I support baby boxes.
It’s true my kids will never know their birthparents, but in all honesty, that bothers me more than it appears to bother them. They are grown up now, and all I can say is that they are all anti-abortion and pro-adoption.
So I guess they prefer the life they have over the alternative.
As the mom of 3 adopted kids I support baby boxes.
It’s true my kids will never know their birthparents, but in all honesty, that bothers me more than it appears to bother them. They are grown up now, and all I can say is that they are all anti-abortion and pro-adoption.
So I guess they prefer the life they have over the alternative.
Question--it's not a problem for the vast majority to identify their mother, but what about all the kids out there whose paternity is questionable? Is the UN demanding their rights? Just wondering.
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