A hospital in Kumamoto is the first in Japan to allow people to leave unwanted babies in an incubator that can be accessed from inside and outside of the hospital. When an infant is placed in the incubator alarms go off to alert doctors and nurses. The infants will be taken care of and if the parents refuse to raise them or they can't be found the children will be put up for adoption. In English this type of drop is called a baby hatch and konotori no yurikago in Japanese which means stork cradle.
The idea of having a place to drop off unwanted children is centuries old, but in the late 90's Germany started opening babylappe to give parents an alternative to abandoning their babies. The parents have 8 weeks to return to reclaim the child without any legal repercussions, if not the child be will be put up for adoption.
This a highly controversial issue, but I feel it's better then the child being abandon without any help or worst the baby is killed. I do think the parents should face some kind of punishment for neglect even though they used the hatch.
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