No matter what side of the abortion debate you are on, pro-choice or pro-life, one universal truth is known. Once a child is born, it is a human being with rights. That is a fundamental law or science and nature. But to some women, it seems that a child is just an inconvenience. A bundle of troubles or even the trash.
Whether it is the
woman who
cooked her one-month old daughter in the microwave, or the mother who has cried "
My kids are a pain.", or little
Caylee who mother doesn't care where she is or if she's even alive, we are seeing a rash of people not fit to be parents.
While the mother who microwaved her daughter nauseates me, the children who are thrown away, like trash, horrifies me even more.
A 6-year-old girl playing hide-and-seek with her grandmother found a newborn baby girl abandoned in a vacant lot next to her home.
Lilliana Williams-Rodriguez told her grandmother Thursday evening that she had found a doll in the bushes.
But Thelma Williams, 55, who has six children, knew right away the baby lying motionless in the weeds near a basketball hoop was no doll. She called 911 and wrapped the baby in clothing until firefighters arrived.
Police estimated the child was born an hour or two before she was discovered. The baby girl was taken to the hospital with a fever but was expected to recover.
The infant, partially wrapped in a black shirt, still had her umbilical cord attached, said police Sgt. Tom Connellan. Police weren't sure if she was born at the scene or brought there and abandoned. They were searching for the infant's mother.
The state's Abandoned Infant Protection law allows parents unable to care for their newborns to leave them, no questions asked, with a responsible person at a hospital, police station or fire station.
"Leaving the baby in the bushes like that — if the baby hadn't been found, it probably wouldn't have survived for long," Connellan said.
Williams said it was lucky her granddaughter asked her to play that evening. "It was a game of hide-and-go-seek that turned into a day of reckoning," she told The Post-Standard of Syracuse.
It was a miracle that Lilliana Williams-Rodriguez was out playing with her grandmother. This little baby girl now has a chance to live her life with joy and love.
If you don't want a child and don't want an abortion, give the child up for adoption. If you think it is an inconvenience, then adoption is an answer. But the trash heap, garbage can, or empty lot as in this case is not the answer or the solution.
Children are not garbage, they shouldn't be treated as such!!
