I am SOOOOO MAD!!! Your opion;;;;;;

Debbie and Peter pretty much summed up my opinion on this as well.

Unlike you, Debbie, I only "feel" for these girls up until the moment they chose to treat their infants like trash. After that they lose my respect and my sympathy. They deserve to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. If the child dies as a result, then they are murderers and should be treated accordingly.

In many such cases the mothers are strung out on drugs. Even so, you can't convince me that they don't know the difference between a door step and a rubbish bin.

As has been pointed out by others, here in the US there is a policy that infants can be left on the doorstep of a hospital, police or fire station with no questions asked. The is no excuse for dumping a child into the garbage.

I do feel sorry for the girls if they are pimped out or raped( but even still thay to can have free medical care for themselves and the baby) but from what we know of these girls that this has happened to around here they are young and just having sex and not caring what happens after that!! And I agree Peter if you are uneducated or on drugs thats no excuse what so ever thats just another problem and these girls could have proper medical care if they just went to the hosp!! I am sorry i just dont understand it and never will and i think they should be prosecuted and maybe it will make others think twice about doing something like that!  One girl here actually had a healthy baby boy and left it in the toliet of a gas station and it died from drowning!! they are still looking for her, they have a not so clear picture of here on a security camera,, i mean its murder!!!! Ok i will get off the subject Thanks to all of you for posting your thoughts;)))

Tough one this! Which side of the fence to come down on.

Sometimes these kids are frightened of what their parents (or thier society) will say or do if they are found to be pregnant. depends on their upbringing, religion or even country they live in. The mother could be young, old, married, unmarried, rich, or poor. She could come from a very strict upbringing or were thier relgoius beleifs will make them outcasts.

It certainly is wrong to 'dump' babies born in this way wether still-born or not, but the state of mind of the mother must be in turmiol to make her dispose of her 'birth' in this way. She probely isnt thinking straight due to the situation she finds herself in. mmmm!

You take a more merciful view of this than I do, Michael.

While I understand your words, I can not find sympathy for them. It's not like they found themselves pregnant and had only minutes or days to make a decision.

They had nine months to seek help and to think about what they would do. The no questions asked policy in the states makes it particularly disturbing that a young woman (and some not so young) would still make the choice to throw an infant in the trash.