Today I would like to talk about the "Baby Hatch." This is one of the biggest issues in the world today. I'll talk what is the baby hatch, then I would like to show you and discuss about two letters about the baby hatch. Those two letters have different point of view about a baby hatch.
A baby hatch is a place where mothers can bring their babies, usually newborn, and leave them anonymously in a safe place to be found and cared for. This kind of arrangement was common in mediaeval times and in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the device was known as a foundling wheel. Foundling wheels were taken out of use in the late 1800s but a modern form, the baby hatch, began to be introduced again from 1996 and since 2000 has come into use in many countries, notably in Germany where there are around 80 hatches today. The hatches are usually in hospitals or social centres and consist of a door or flap in an outside wall which opens to reveal a soft bed, heated or at least insulated. Sensors in the bed alert carers when a baby has been put in it so that they can come and take care of the child. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_hatchFirst, I want you to read a letter "
Baby hatch is not the answer" by Krishna
Haksar. She is completely disagree to the idea of the baby hatch. She says "finding a 3-year-old toddler on the first day of the facility's operation should be taken as a warning about the misguided compassion of this hospital and the city" She uses authority by telling us this fact. She also says that the answer for an wanted child is better-trained, scrutinized and well-paid government or private agency staff with a strong monitoring agency well-funded by tax money. She also uses authority by telling us different ways to solve this issue, which makes a lot of sense.
Next, I want you to read a letter "
Baby hatch beats alternative" by Name Withheld. She says that it is a good idea when they cannot share their plight with anyone else. Then she gives us a example about a junior high school student and her boyfriend had a baby. They couldn't take care of the baby and the baby was abandoned in a nearby temple in cold weather and died. Her opinion is baby hatch is a great idea for people who cannot take care of their baby somehow and let babies die. She uses an authority by telling us this terrible fact. Which works very much.
Both opinions make sense very much that I can not say which idea is better than the other. However I agree with Name Withheld, the writer who wrote a second letter, who is agree to the idea of the baby hatch.I think it is a great thing to let the babies live and be taken cared by someone rather than let the babies die. The only problem is that people who can take care of their babies, abandoning their babies just because they do not want babies. To solve this problem, I think, the government should have more strict rules for using the baby hatch.
