Baby Dumping

Last night here in St. Louis, a man went to a dumpster to drop off his lawn clippings.  He thought he heard a baby crying inside and went for help.  After he and some others dug through the waste, they found a newborn baby inside with the umbilical cord still attached.  This both angers and saddens me.

I don’t know what goes through a person’s mind to give birth to a child and then put it in a dumpster, or why does a teenager go into a bathroom at prom and do the same thing?  You carried the child for nine months.  You just went through labor.  Now, you just want to leave it somewhere like forgetting your purse?

In some states, there are places where you can actually drop off your unwanted baby safely and anonymously, and the child will at least be cared for.  But for those of you who don’t have that option, find my house and leave the baby at the back door.  We live in a country where orphanages are crowded, the fostering system is a joke, and adoption is too expensive.  We take kids from their battered homes but put them right back in them if the real parents come crying and want their kids back.  And the moral majority of America thinks I’m not fit to raise and love a child because I live with another man.

Excuse me, lady, don’t leave that baby in the trash.  How dare you!  Give it to me.  Give the baby a chance.  Give it a home.  And don’t you dare come calling when the baby is out of diapers and in school, and now you want him back so you can draw a check!  You didn’t want him before!