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Controversial plan to help Dutch foundlings

Published on : 11 October 2011 - 8:00am | By Eric Beauchemin (Screenshot: EenVandaag)
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In the Netherlands, new born babies are still regularly abandoned or murdered by their desperate parents. Belgium and Germany have created foundling hatches where a mother or father can anonymously give up their baby.

Barbara Muller wants to set up a similar foundling hatch in the Netherlands. If all goes according to plan, it will be opened in the city of Dordrecht in late 2012.

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Andrei Yudin 13 October 2011 - 1:02pm / Moscow,Russia

I suggest a still better idea.All the foundlings should be brought to and laid down before the doors of the houses where the persons who argue against abortions live in.Let them take care of those foundlings.Making anti-abortion propaganda they are responsible for such foundlings.

Andrei Yudin 13 October 2011 - 3:08am / Moscow,Russia

All those foundlings will be kept in life and brought up at the expense of the Dutch tax-payers.Why should the Dutch tax-payers pay money for those women who wanted to get married or procreate at somebody's expense and didn't want to make an abortion?The Dutch police can easily establish who are the bilogical parents of those foundlings and oblige the biological mothers to pay for them.It would be very good as well to make pay all the organizations and persons who argue against abortions.

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Awesome Ted 13 October 2011 - 10:03am

Taxpayers should pay for this because it has the potential to save the lives of babies. Anyone who cares at all about women in trouble or their children would recognise that this is an excellent idea. Why are you so obsessed with forcing women to have abortions?

Andrei Yudin 12 October 2011 - 12:37pm / Moscow,Russia

It's shameful for Holland that there are still foundlings in it.the right to abortion for women already exist in Holland.Why then foundlings?It's because women everywhere includin Holland want to get married and procreate but not all of them succeed in black-mailing men with their pregnancies.If the right to abortion existed for the Dutch men there were not any foundlings in Holland.

wang,yijiang 11 October 2011 - 7:42pm / xi'an china/calgary canada

it's not necessary to love foundlings because mother herself gave up this necessity. unrequired love is unilateral. troublesome afterwards certainly is uncertainty. sarcastically,job creation is certain,is what north america want.

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