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Warning: this article will make you want to vomit, so I'm not quoting the gist of the article but this comment from the doctor is what I'm also struck by:
From the article:
"Various reasons can lead women into such violent situations that they can't even think straight," said Dr. Roswith Roth of the University of Graz's Institute of Psychology.
"When a mother kills a child right after its birth, it's clear that she does so because she sees no other way out," Roth told the Austria Press Agency. "There is still an enormous amount of ignorance in how to prevent such things"
AND
"Although the province of Styria where Graz is regional capital has had a program in place since 2001 allowing women who don't want to keep their babies to give birth anonymously, women's advocates called for greater attention to their plight.
"The climate in which a woman must deal with an unplanned pregnancy is not very supportive in Austria," said Sylvia Groth, who heads a women's health center in Graz."
What else do we need to be doing to protect these babies and help mothers feel like they have options? This woman was terrified of losing her partner who claimed he didn't even know she was pregnant FOUR TIMES!! How can you be living together and not know?
Warning: this article will make you want to vomit, so I'm not quoting the gist of the article but this comment from the doctor is what I'm also struck by:
From the article:
"Various reasons can lead women into such violent situations that they can't even think straight," said Dr. Roswith Roth of the University of Graz's Institute of Psychology.
"When a mother kills a child right after its birth, it's clear that she does so because she sees no other way out," Roth told the Austria Press Agency. "There is still an enormous amount of ignorance in how to prevent such things"
AND
"Although the province of Styria where Graz is regional capital has had a program in place since 2001 allowing women who don't want to keep their babies to give birth anonymously, women's advocates called for greater attention to their plight.
"The climate in which a woman must deal with an unplanned pregnancy is not very supportive in Austria," said Sylvia Groth, who heads a women's health center in Graz."
What else do we need to be doing to protect these babies and help mothers feel like they have options? This woman was terrified of losing her partner who claimed he didn't even know she was pregnant FOUR TIMES!! How can you be living together and not know?
