China’s one-child policy officials get “tremendous income”
Human life is of paramount importance to the traditional morals of Chinese culture. This concept has been trampled on by uncivilized policies and behavior – including forced abortions – to the point of complete devastation. After decades of violent abortions, people have lost almost all respect and regard for life….
Over 60 million people are affected by this policy – your neighbors, for example. If you have violated family planning and become pregnant and they cannot find you, your neighbors in a 50-metre radius will be arrested. In other words, they will use your house as the center of a 50-meter circle, arresting at least five other households….
Because the families are worried, they call on their relatives to bribe the officials to release the person arrested. They pay between 3,000 and 5,000 yuan [approximately $500-$800 USD]. After they hand over the money, the officials think of a way to send the person home but they can still be rearrested after three to five days. And then they have to pay again to get the person re-released….
That’s a tremendous amount of income. If you cut off the revenue stream of these family planning officials, of course they will be angry.
~ Chinese civil rights activist Chen Guangcheng, describing the deep roots and corruption of the One-Child family planning policy in China, as quoted by the FRC Blog via New Statesman, January 30
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
1. Man is severely perverted and has no redeeming qualities.
2. Thank God for Christ Jesus who saves us from ourselves.
3. The US founders understood upholding all our rights requires every adult to be armed. The presence of such weaponry keeps such barbarity from being common place. There are degrees of self-defense which extend to national levels, because man’s perversity extends to national levels.
4. Why is the US population trading with these thugs? (Perhaps to keep the door open to bring them the Good News?)
5. Paging Jessica Valenti, those of Feministing, NARAL and Dear Leader Obama, China wants to celebrate your glorious efforts in expanding such abortion (Pro-State’s-Choice) policies to the US. Human rights abuses lacking choice don’t interest you? Where do you think ObamaCare goes and why abolish or remove the term “Pro-choice”? Is it because soon the US will be like China, and personal choice will be a distant memory?
Same thing goes for the abortion industry (especially Planned Parenthood) here in America. The roots run deep, and any perceived threat to the industry’s income makes them very angry.
I have some students in my class from mainland China. I was talking to one of them named Jingru and she said they are relaxing the one-child policy a bit for a number of reasons, including that in a traditional society, children are expected to provide for their parents in their old age. All the mainland Chinese students in the class are only children, but in the future they will be allowed to have two children.
Jingru also said that every child born must have an identification card that is received at birth. Without this card, the child cannot receive health benefits, go to school, etc. However, the parents MUST be married in order for their child to receive the card. If they are not, the child absolutely cannot receive the card, which in effect means that he or she does not exist. It’s a very harsh policy, and I would guess there are no “baby mommas” over there.
phillymiss, your student is unfortunately wrong.
http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/blog/?p=911
The exceptions made are if a family has a female child first. Then they *may* be allowed to apply for a license to try for a boy the second time (which of course leads to more sex-selective abortions). But their government has made it very clear that they intend to continue on this path. :(
You’d think, being the way they are, they would WANT to have more citizens…like Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania.
You know..more people..more people to CONTROL.
You’d think they’d LIKE that.
I wonder how much Chen Guangcheng’s handicap contributes to his anti-abortion stance? The late, brilliant Irish author Christopher Nolan had cerebral palsy due to a traumatic birth. He was not an abortion survivor. However, when asked to speak at a public group, he chose to give an anti-abortion speech. He spoke specifically against the abortions of disabled fetuses. He asked, “Why does society fear the crippled child?”
phillymiss, your student is unfortunately wrong.
She said that only children would be allowed to have two children, but perhaps she was mistaken.
“If you cut off the revenue stream of these family planning officials, of course they will be angry.”
The ‘dead babies r us’ mob in the humanist paradise of communist China is just as predictable as their american cousins.
Isn’t it true that Chen is only anti-forced abortion, not anti-abortion in general? As far as I know, he opposes China’s enforcement of the one-child policy and violent, forced abortions, but does not oppose all abortion.
Isn’t it true that Chen is only anti-forced abortion, not anti-abortion in general? As far as I know, he opposes China’s enforcement of the one-child policy and violent, forced abortions, but does not oppose all abortion.
I haven’t seen any documentation on this, but in his interview link above, he talks about the value of human life and how it has been devalued in China.
I know, I keep wondering if Chen is actually pro-life or just anti-forced-abortion. Not that anti-forced-abortion is bad, because forced abortion is a good thing to be anti, but… Yeah. Like Kel, I haven’t been able to track down a solid answer to this question, nor have I found any quotes from which an answer could be reasonably inferred. I’m beginning to think that if we want an answer here, someone’s just going to have to track him down and point-blank ask him.
phillymiss, you are correct. Couples may have two children if they themselves are only children.
The whole situation is so sick and sad. Chinese people have no reproductive rights and it is such a human rights travesty. It is disgusting that pro-aborts whine about their own phony “reproductive rights” which include forcing other people to pay for their contraception and killing the children they have already reproduced.
Alice says:
January 31, 2013 at 11:21 pm
I know, I keep wondering if Chen is actually pro-life or just anti-forced-abortion.
(Denise) Look at the phrases he uses. It seems he is anti-abortion.