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As many have pointed out, you have no clear evidence that safe havens really save babies--only that they theoretically can save babies. But having criminal penalties for child abandonment can theoretically save babies too.
You also have no evidence that your mother would have used a safe haven had there been one. You are pulling that out of the clear blue sky. You also do not, or cannot, elaborate on why your mother abandoned you. Was she mentally ill? Did dad abandon her? Did your grandparents abandon her? Thus, your belief in safe havens as some sort of cure is more a wish, and extension of your own abandonment, than a rationale solution to an age-old problem.
Babies are not worth saving at all cost. Just as adults are not worth saving at all cost. We send men to war, knowing some will die, because our freedom and our constitution is worth more than life. The declaration, "Give me liberty or give me death" means exactly that.
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Erik L. Smith
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