Absolutely tragic for both the baby and the teenager. It really sucks that for a country grappling with fertility issues, there’s still a lot of stigma surrounding unplanned pregnancies, or talk of contraception. The fact that there’s only 1 hospital in Kumamoto that does confidential births shows how deep this issue is from a societal perspective. That poor baby could have lived and found a home with any of the childless Japanese families currently struggling with IVF. Only if there could be more support structures in place to help in such situations. More could be done, but as usual trying to bring awareness will just trigger the annoying conservatives.
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Absolutely tragic for both the baby and the teenager. It really sucks that for a country grappling with fertility issues, there’s still a lot of stigma surrounding unplanned pregnancies, or talk of contraception. The fact that there’s only 1 hospital in Kumamoto that does confidential births shows how deep this issue is from a societal perspective. That poor baby could have lived and found a home with any of the childless Japanese families currently struggling with IVF. Only if there could be more support structures in place to help in such situations. More could be done, but as usual trying to bring awareness will just trigger the annoying conservatives.