“Crying from the Bushes: A Call from Liberia the World Can’t Ignore”

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I write from Monrovia, Liberia with a pen soaked not in ink, but in heartbreak.

Babies are being born in silence and abandoned in even deeper silence. In the past two years, far too many newborns have been found tossed behind hospitals, left in overgrown bushes, or dumped along quiet roadside tracks some wrapped in old cloth, others tied in black plastic bags as if they were nothing.

Yes, after being carried for nine months through morning sickness, swollen feet, midnight kicks, and labor pains some of these children are left to die alone. No name. No lullaby. Just the sound of passing motorbikes or rustling grass.

What’s happening to us, as women?

We are known to nurture to build homes and hold nations together. We are wired with love, courage, and compassion. So where has that gone?

I am not writing to shame. I am writing to ask why.

Why are women pushed to the point where giving birth becomes just a step before discarding life? Is it poverty? Fear? Stigma? Desperation? Whatever it is it is killing us softly, and killing our future even faster.

To our President, Joseph Boakai: this is not just a women’s issue it’s a national emergency.

To global readers: do not dismiss this as “Liberia’s problem.” Around the world, women in crisis are making desperate choices in silence. Let’s speak for the voiceless. Let’s shine light in the hidden placesb where newborns lie in bushes, where shame hides behind hospital buildings, where silence sounds like tragedy.

Every child discarded is a story untold, a legacy unraveled.

📢 Help me share this. Comment. Repost. Speak loudly. Let the world mourn with us and act with us.

We don’t need judgment. We need compassion, support systems, safe options, and education. If we don’t stand together now, more lives will be lost not just the babies, but the mothers, too.