[Diversity-talk] Who Maps The World

[Rory McCann]

On 19/03/18 16:18, Philip Barnes wrote:
> Baby hatch sounds a horrible tag, sounds mechanical uncaring and 
> impersonal. I assume it means a maternity ward?

They're literally hatches for babies ( 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_hatch ). They're in some countries, 
and are attached to maternity hospitals. They are places for new mothers 
to leave their babies.

There are a lot of crisis pregnancies, and sometimes repressive 
societies, and sometimes new mothers make rash decisions[1] and there 
are plenty of newborn babies who are left to die. The theory here is 
that if they are going to abandon the baby, better the baby is left 
somewhere safe(r), than the side of a road, or worse.

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[1] Until recently Ireland was such a society. 15 year old Ann Lovett 
died giving birth in a grotto, and the last slave labour factory for 
unmarried mothers closed less than a decade before OSM was founded.