Mum who abandoned baby arrested

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Published: 11 Jan 2013 at 17.49
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BANGKOK - Police on Friday arrested a 40-year-old mother who allegedly abandoned her newly born baby because she "had sex with many men and did not use contraception".

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Police at Chana Songkram police station said that the woman was named as Supee Janklang, from Prachin Buri province. She was charged with premeditated murder, hiding a body and concealing the cause of death.

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ricoaj22
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Discussion 6 : 12 Jan 2013 at 10.296
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Well said D1 and D2, very sensible comments and unequivocally true!

This lady has suffered undoubtedly and maybe the reporting doesn't show this & shows her as a callous coward. But her irresponsible and criminal behaviour shouldn't be ignored because she isn't the victim in this, the deceased baby is. IMO she should go to jail for a long time to reflect on her actions and attitudes.

A sad story all round really. RIP to the little one
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Discussion 5 : 11 Jan 2013 at 20.575
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Land or water animals will sacrifice their lives just to protect their newly born babies. They will defend their defendless babies even to the extent of losing thier life. Why humanbeing seemed can't learn to follow this good example. Why allow yourself to get pregnant if you're not ready to have a baby.
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Discussion 4 : 11 Jan 2013 at 20.544
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musashi, re D3,
No, a foetus before the age of around 7 months, certainly before 6, is not a person on any reasonable definition of the word "person". In fact, it doesn't even meet a reasonable definition of "human being" until around 7 months.

Simply being alive and containing human DNA does not make something a human being: if I cut the tip of my finger off, that blob is not a human being, much less a person.

Your reason fails. Abortion is not murder, nor is there any other good reason for it to be illegal - that is what's immoral here.
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Discussion 3 : 11 Jan 2013 at 20.233
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felixqui #2: Abortion is the killing of an unborn person. Any person, born or unborn, clever or stupid, black or white, will feel the excruciating pain of being sliced up and killed. There is no such thing as humane abortion.

Education about safe sex, and being faithful to your partner is more important. Protecting yourself with contraceptives against diseases and unplanned pregnancies is more important and effective.

Why choose to kill when you could have done something to prevent it?
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Discussion 2 : 11 Jan 2013 at 18.542
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What Thailand desperately needs are humane and just abortion laws. As this and thousands of other unahhpy stories of blighted lives shows, there is an ever pressing need for such basic justice for the sake both of women and of Thai society.

There is no excuse for the current immoral refusal to provide safe, legal abortion on demand.
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Discussion 1 : 11 Jan 2013 at 18.321
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Why can't Thailand (for once) take a constructive suggestion from another Country and pass laws allowing women to legally "abandon" their babies at hospitals, etc. All 50 America States have these laws now and they do save lives.
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