Abortion, adoption and firehouse are all much better options

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...then keeping the kid just to neglect and abuse him down the road:

Couple adopts toddler left at fire station as a newborn
Firefighters found the baby, Samuel, in a box with a note from his birth mom.

Nearly two years ago, Chris and Brittany Tyler were at home in Louisville, Kentucky, when they read a news story online about a newborn who was surrendered at a local fire station under the state's Safe Infants Act, which provides designated safe places for parents to leave babies under 30 days old with no penalties.

Last month, the Tylers adopted the baby they read about, a boy whom they named Samuel.

"He's been part of our family from day one," Chris Tyler told "Good Morning America" of his now-toddler, who is nearly 2 years old and loves hugs and Mickey Mouse, according to his parents.

Chris Tyler said he and his wife became foster parents nearly seven years ago after struggling with infertility for years.

Already the parents of two adopted sons, ages 5 and 7, the Tylers said when they read the news story about the infant surrendered at the fire station, they "prayed and hoped" they would be asked to take in the baby.

According to Lt. Col. Bobby Cooper, assistant chief for the Louisville Fire Department, firefighters at a station in Louisville were in the middle of a shift change around 8 a.m. on May 12, 2022, when the doorbell to the station rang.

On the doorstep, firefighters found a newborn baby tucked safely in a box, along with a note from his biological mother.

"The [firefighters] notified emergency transportation, EMS, to be able to transport Samuel to a local children's hospital, to get him checked out and make sure that he was healthy and that he got the proper care that he needed," Cooper told "GMA," adding, "Our firefighters did a tremendous job of handling it and notifying the appropriate authorities."

Just a few days later, while out for a walk with their older sons, the Tylers said they received a phone call asking them to foster the baby. The next day, they were in the neonatal intensive care unit of a local hospital, holding Samuel.

"He was in the NICU for a couple of weeks before he was ready to come home [because] he was so small," Brittany Tyler said, adding that Samuel weighed just 3 pounds when he arrived at the hospital. "And we were able to visit him in the NICU that entire time."

When the Tylers brought Samuel home on June 2, 2022, they said he immediately "fit right in" with the family.

"The other kids absolutely loved him," Brittany Tyler recalled. "We had another foster baby at the time who was only a few months older, and they became buddies right away."

When the Tylers brought Samuel home on June 2, 2022, they said he immediately "fit right in" with the family.

"The other kids absolutely loved him," Brittany Tyler recalled. "We had another foster baby at the time who was only a few months older, and they became buddies right away."

Following family tradition, after the adoption ceremony, the couple said they took Samuel to a local Build-A-Bear store, where he made a firefighter bear.

[Hung_Low]

How about close your legs... and if you can't, get protection.