First Senate post and this is as good a place as any. Hi guys, I'm the new guy from the Pacific
I guess I generally support this bill. In Austria, there is an institution called the "Babyklappe" (baby hatches), some warm spot under a glas panel in some hospitals where mothers can leave their child anonymously. An alarm then goes off, so the child is sought after, while the mother can get away then before being seen by anyone. This bill would essentially do the same thing, just the anonymity is not given. No one in this honourable body can ever experience what the mothers must feel in that particular moment, when they give up their child. I guess it would be better then if we too would give the mothers that anonymity, so they can at least keep their decency before the worker in the particular institution.
Once this amendment is approved, I'd like to offer an amendment enabling this.
I don't know. I feel like the child should have SOME right to the information somehow. Surely there is a way to protect the privacy and eventually give those children some kind of closure should they desire it.