HomeschoolrsRUs
08-30-2007, 11:17 AM
Chinese victims of forced abortions fight back | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5094395.html)
QIAN'AN, China — Yang Zhongchen, a small-town businessman, wined and dined three government officials for permission to become a father.
But the Peking duck and liquor weren't enough. One night, a couple of weeks before her date for giving birth, Yang's wife was dragged from her bed in a north China town and taken to a clinic, where, she says, her baby was killed by injection while still inside her.
"Several people held me down, they ripped my clothes aside and the doctor pushed a large syringe into my stomach," says Jin Yani, a shy, petite woman with a long ponytail. "It was very painful. ... It was all very rough."
Some 30 years after China decreed a general limit of one child per family, resentment still brews over the state's regular and sometimes brutal intrusion into intimate family matters. Not only are many second pregnancies aborted, but even to have one's first child requires a license.
Okay where are all the "pro-choicers" who will rush to support and defend these women and their right to CHOOSE to be parents? This children WERE wanted, and yet the GOVERNMENT forced abortion upon them. Shouldn't THEY have the right to choose --- to BE parents? Where are all the "human rights" groups? Were are all the celebrities?
< crickets chirping >
QIAN'AN, China — Yang Zhongchen, a small-town businessman, wined and dined three government officials for permission to become a father.
But the Peking duck and liquor weren't enough. One night, a couple of weeks before her date for giving birth, Yang's wife was dragged from her bed in a north China town and taken to a clinic, where, she says, her baby was killed by injection while still inside her.
"Several people held me down, they ripped my clothes aside and the doctor pushed a large syringe into my stomach," says Jin Yani, a shy, petite woman with a long ponytail. "It was very painful. ... It was all very rough."
Some 30 years after China decreed a general limit of one child per family, resentment still brews over the state's regular and sometimes brutal intrusion into intimate family matters. Not only are many second pregnancies aborted, but even to have one's first child requires a license.
Okay where are all the "pro-choicers" who will rush to support and defend these women and their right to CHOOSE to be parents? This children WERE wanted, and yet the GOVERNMENT forced abortion upon them. Shouldn't THEY have the right to choose --- to BE parents? Where are all the "human rights" groups? Were are all the celebrities?
< crickets chirping >