The brutality of China’s one-child policy
There are a lot of accusations in Chen’s talk, but I want to say from my experience that they are all true…
I don’t know how accurate the numbers are, but I have an aunt who worked as a ‘family planning’ officer in a small town in rural Guizhou, and she told me a lot of stories of going to people’s houses, them being beaten up and having forced abortions, so it’s true.
~ Chinese Christian commentor Sean Tseng confirming the testimony of Chinese Civil rights activist Chen Guangcheng (pictured) about the brutality of forced abortions in China’s one child policy, Christian Today, November 6
And we wink at this all the time. Apathy is nothing new, but our modern times brings us injustices on an industrial scale it seems.
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Good Lord.
Having an aunt who is a “family planning officer?” And telling tales of the beating she carried out and the forced abortions she was involved in?
There wouldn’t be much talking between us after that.
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I recommend the book A Mother’s Ordeal: One Woman’s Fight Against China’s One Child Policy by Steven Mosher to truly understand the intricacies of China’s system.
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-The Chen controversy was a challenge for the media. They described him as a political dissident but rarely identified his leading cause: forced abortion. They avoided this purposefully.
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“There wouldn’t be much talking between us after that.”
Yeah, I can’t imagine them having Thanksgiving dinner together or anything like that.
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A chinese christian ‘heard’ stories so it’s true and confirms what someone else has claimed? Seriously? I’m as convinced as others here that this type of action has happened but this is a really weak claim of evidence for it.
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One person hearing stories is one link in a chain of evidence of forced abortion. That link is interwoven with thousands of eyewitness, victim, and perpetrator testimonies. Plus, there is the work Reggie Littlejohn has been doing.
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One person hearing stories is one link in a chain of evidence of forced abortion. – no. ‘Hearing stories’ is not evidence. It’s hearsay, or urban myth.
thousands of eyewitness, victim, and perpetrator testimonies. – now that’s a chain of testimony.
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MoJoanne–I read that book 2 years ago after I’d given birth to my second son. I kept thinking how he’d be “illegal” if I were in China. I would read the book while nursing him and cry my eyes out thinking of those poor mothers hiding and trying in vain to protect their babies. They even killed babies by injecting poison into the fontanels of the infants as they came down the birth canal.
Remember, our illustrious vice president said he would never “second guess” this.
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From the baby’s perspective our culture is just as depraved. The same barbaric slaughter of an innocent babe by an abortionist. The only difference is that in China the woman isn’t always a willing accomplice to the murder.
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