Along with the two-year lifetime limit on welfare benefits, Mr. Clinton would provide training and job-search programs to help indigent mothers move on to work.

These are the places where indigent mothers most often dump their babies.

President Clinton, Congress and state legislatures have provided more generous benefits to indigent working mothers with dependent children.

The measure would place a two-year limit on welfare benefits and then require indigent mothers to join a community service program.

The Dasmariñas Lying-In Clinic in Barangay Victoria Reyes established in 2001 offers free childbirth services to indigent mothers.

In addition to caring for the children, homeless and indigent mothers were also provided for by St. Ann's Maternity Hospital, which was opened in 1880.

Services range from prenatal care for indigent mothers to day care for the elderly.

In 1896, a group of community-spirited women formed the Norfolk City Union of The King's Daughters to provide medical care for indigent mothers and their children.

But it was uncertain how the indigent mother would fare in a Supreme Court that tends to show too little sympathy for the poor and too much for states' rights.

Such costly procedures as intensive care for premature infants born to indigent mothers could be avoided if more people received Medicaid, the group said.