Now something's happened to reinstate the link, we can see what it was Bert was speechless about. I'd just taken it as a crafty way to start a daft thread about incoherence.

The idea of the baby bank is disconcerting - but babies do get left on doorsteps and bus shelters by mothers who can't see any way they can manage to look after them. Far better if they can be left somewhere safe. Far better for the baby - and for the mother, whatever she ultimately decides to do.

I am very puzzled by why anyone would think it's not a good idea, and yet I know that there has been sonme sharp criticism - if the idea is that this might make it easier for a mother to abandon her child, that's an appalling way of thinking. It's in effect saying that society should use the risk of a child dying of cold on a doorstep as a way of putting pressure on the mother to keep looking after it.