"BEIJING (AP) — A newborn's cries from a public restroom in a residential building in eastern China led a tenant to a startling discovery: a baby boy trapped in a sewage pipe beneath a squat toilet.
Firefighters, unable to pull the baby out, ended up sawing away an L-shaped section of the pipe and carrying it to a hospital, where it was delicately pried apart to save the infant...
In China, reports of babies being abandoned are common and fuel public anger against a strict one-child policy that imposes huge fines on parents who violate the rules. The policy has been blamed as a factor in causing parents to abandon unwanted children, although they are usually baby girls because of a traditional preference for males."
Rescuers save newborn from sewage pipe in China
I am happy that this child was saved, but I am sad that somebody did this, and that government policy seems to encourage such.
China has a large population, making up about 20% of the world's population.
Still, aren't there better solutions than this???