Germany: 'Cradle' earns Adventist hospital chaplain national recognition Berlin/Germany | 27.11.2011 | Health & Ethics A Seventh-day Adventist hospital chaplain in Germany was recently awarded for offering distressed pregnant women a safe alternative to abandoning their babies. Gabriele Stangl, chaplain of Waldfriede Adventist Hospital in Berlin, received Germany's Medal of Merit this month for operating what hospital staff call the "cradle" (in German: Babyklappe), a padded box behind the hospital clinic accessible by a single unmonitored entrance where women can anonymously leave their unwanted babies.
