A baby abandoned in a "baby box" at Joosarang church waits for a medical examination at a children's hospital in Seoul, South Korea, on Sept. 19. Pastor Lee Jong-rak of the church, who runs a "baby box" where mothers can leave unwanted infants, has seen a sharp increase in the number of newborns being left there because, the pastor says, of a new law aimed protecting the rights of children. South Korea is trying to shed a reputation of being a source of babies for adoption by people abroad. It is encouraging domestic adoption and tightening up the process of a child's transfer from birth mother to adoptive parents.

A policeman talks on a phone as preacher Jeong Young-ran looks on after a mother abandoned her baby at a "baby box" at Joosarang church in Seoul on Sept. 18.

A police officer collects DNA samples from two abandoned babies after the babies were left at a "baby box" at Joosarang church in Seoul on Sept 20.

South Korean pastor Lee Jong-rak adjusts the blanket around an abandoned two-week-old baby boy in a "baby box" at Joosarang church in Seoul on Sept. 18.

Ward officials, who did not want to be identified, hold abandoned babies as they head to a child advocacy center after the babies had undergone checkups at a children's hospital in Seoul on Sept. 19.

Pastor Lee Jong-rak plays with Lee On-u, 6, a disabled child who was abandoned, at the Joosarang church in Seoul on Sept. 20.

South Korean pastor Lee Jong-rak carries a baby, abandoned a day earlier at a "baby box" at his Joosarang church, to hand it over to ward officials as portraits of other abandoned children raised and adopted by him are seen on a wall of the church in Seoul on Sept. 20.

Mothers and their newborns share space on a bed after giving birth in the maternity ward at the government-run Jose Fabella maternity hospital in Manila, Philippines.

A mother is in pain while her newborn baby rests on her chest as she gets surgically sutured after giving birth in a delivery room at the Jose Fabella Hospital.

A mother is seen on the operation table next to her new baby moments after a Caesarean operation.

Mothers breast feed their babies in a special room at the Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital.

Newborn babies rest at the university hospital of Leipzig, eastern Germany, on Jan 2. 2100 babies were born at the hospital in 2011.

Nurses hold newborn babies in Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. As of Oct. 31, according to the U.N. Population Fund, there will be 7 billion people sharing Earth's land and resources.

Vinita Yadav, a 23-year-old Indian, holds her newborn baby girl Nargis, who was born at 7:20am, inside a community health center in Mall, India on Oct. 31, 2011. The world's population will reach seven billion on 31 October 2011, according to projections by the United Nations, which says this global milestone presents both an opportunity and a challenge for the planet. While more people are living longer and healthier lives, says the U.N., gaps between rich and poor are widening and more people than ever are vulnerable to food insecurity and water shortages.

A pediatrician measures the head of Linda Abigail, the third child of Lourdes Suyapa Rodriguez, 35, after she was born in the childbirth unit of the Escuela hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on Oct. 31, 2011.

Buthaina, a young Sudanese mother lies in bed with her newborn baby at El-Fasher Women's Hospital in Sudan's northern Darfur region on Oct. 31, 2011. As Sudan's population reaches 33 million persons, with approximately six million living in Darfur's three states.

Medics hold an infant boy shortly after Alla Baturina gave birth to him, at a perinatal center of Moscow City Hospital Number 8 in Moscow on Oct. 31, 2011.

The symbolic seven billionth member of the world population from Sri Lanka, Muthumali receives a cuddle from her 23-year-old mother W.G. Dhanushika Dilani at the Castle Street Maternity Hospital in Colombo on Oct. 31, 2011. A special event was organized at the Castle Street Maternity Hospital to receive what is believed to be the seven billionth member of the world population.

Newborn Pakistani babies, receive phototherapy treatment against neonatal jaundice, at the nursery room of a hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. Countries around the world marked the world's population reaching 7 billion Monday with lavish ceremonies for newborn infants symbolizing the milestone and warnings that there may be too many humans for the planet's resources.

A baby is baptized during a mass baptism ceremony in Tbilisi, Sept. 29, 2011. About 450 children were baptized by the Georgian Orthodox church during a mass baptism ceremony at the country's main cathedral Holy Trinity.

Newborn elephant babies Shavu and Uli, from left, enjoy their first get together at the zoo in Wuppertal, Germany, Jan. 24. Uli was born Sunday a week ago, and Shavu arrived last Thursday at the zoo. Both little African elephants share the same father Tusker, who comes from South Africa.