"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."
-Elizabeth Stone
This evening after getting home from church, I checked my email, signed out and was transferred to the MSN® homepage, when something caught my eye that shook me to my core. There on the homepage I read the words "Woman faces charges over baby in plane’s trash". Though thoroughly disgusted, I clicked on the link to read the full story and read this: "WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A woman who secretly gave birth on a flight from Samoa to New Zealand may face criminal charges, police said Friday, as they investigated reports she abandoned her baby alive in the plane's bathroom....Media reports said the mother left the baby in a bathroom waste bin on the Pacific Blue plane carrying 150 passengers; others said she was spotted with bloodied clothes in an immigration line. Police have declined comment on the reports." You can read the full story here.
What has this world come to when a mother will abandon a child in an airplane, let alone a trash can in the plane! You would think that after carrying a child for 9 months a woman would grow completely attached to that tiny baby growing inside of her and in all honesty, if she really didn't want that child that much, why not hand her over to a hospital where she can be placed in a home where she would be loved?
There are so many women who want children, yet can't have any. What harm would it do to give them up if they are willing to let the baby die in a trash can? This story actually reminds me of one I heard a long time ago. At one point in time, there was a pregnant teen who went into labor during prom, so what did she do? You guessed it. She went into the bathroom gave birth to her child, stuck the child in a trash bin and went right back out to dance the night away. Are girls becoming that heartless and self-absorbed? It really is sick. I'd really hate to be that child though...growing up and finding out that your birth mother wanted so little of you that she tossed you into a trash can. It's really unbelievable.
If I'm correct, I also heard a story of a girl who's parents had no clue she was pregnant, in fact they didn't find out until it was too late. The girl gave birth in her bath tub and if i remember correctly, killed her newborn with a pair of scissors! It is horrible to know that these tiny, innocent babies (the ones who don't survive) will never know a future, and will never get the chance to experience life.
Having a child is a gift from God, although some people do not think so. Of course, I don't have any children yet, but hopefully I will eventually, and I already cannot imagine doing that to him/her. Everyone who knows me well enough, knows that I want so badly to be a mother and have been babysitting for a long time...so for some reason, I already take it very personally when something like this happens.
It really is a cold, cruel world out there and as sad as it is, I don't see it getting better any time soon. My only wish is that the women who have it in their mind to rid themselves of their newborns in such a despicable way, realize when they hold that precious baby in their arms that that child deserves a life. I know that some women do not want to get attached to the baby, but letting them die isn't going to do anything, but ruin more than just the baby's chance at life. Give the baby up or if they don't want to spend the time taking them to a local hospital, see if someone else can take them there. And in all honesty, if you don't want children, why would you carry it for 9 months then decide to kill it off? I am not for abortion by the way, I guess I just don't understand the logic in keeping it for 9 months then killing it.
So, having said all of that, please keep this newborn baby girl in your prayers and Lord help that woman to realize what she has done.
posted by Elizabeth at 6:59 PM