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Denying confidential births may lead to precarious situations for babies, so the program will be limited to cases in which the hospital determines there are no other options.

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Takeshi Hasuda, deputy director of Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto City, which plans to accept mothers who want to give birth in complete confidentiality. The hospital already operates a baby hatch, which allows parents to leave their infants anonymously.

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I laud this step but don’t understand the logic of the word “so” after the comma.

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I mean, I think this is probably good but I have so many questions. Does that mean the hospital also doesn't know who they are, or it's just not public record? If it's completely confidential, is it only for Mother's who want to give up their children? I would be uncomfortable releasing an unregistered baby to an anonymous Mother out into the world, who knows what would happen to the baby? Also it can't be completely anonymous unless they don't give their insurance information... in which case they wouldn't get the money back for the cost of the birth and usually someone who would want that kind of anonymity wouldn't have that kind of money to burn, right?

Basically there's not enough information to know what this actually means. I assume they mean for Mother's who wish to give up their babies so that the entire process is anonymous... otherwise I can't see how this would be useful?

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This concept existed and worked in Europe since centuries. No need to reinvent the wheel here..

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