Lunch Break: Chai Ling – testimony and “All Girls Allowed” ministry
by LauraLoo
Amazing testimony of how the LORD raised up Chai Ling to serve His purposes in China.
During an audio interview with Janet Parschall, Chai discusses China’s One-Child Policy, forced/coerced abortions and, as a result, approximately 500 women a day commit suicide. Chai also shares about All Girls Allowed ministry. (To speed through the audio to the topics discussed above, please go to 10:30-14:30 and 33:00-end of interview.)
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Dec.15, 2011 12:00 pm |
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Ribbons and spice, and everything nice. :(
But this is something we in The States should emulate…right joan?
It seems strange to me that so much of the ad for an organization devoted to revealing the injustice of China’s one-child policy features Western stereotypes like little blonde girls in white dresses. If this were an organization devoted to addressing global problem then it would be one thing, but this it is targeted at a problem and a policy fairly contained to a country where pretty much no one looks like the majority of the children pictured in this ad. It just seems strange. I mean, like, if it were an organization devoted to opposing abortion worldwide, or even gender-selective abortion worldwide, that would be one thing. But it is specifically about the women and girls affected by China’s policy – and yet until the very end, pretty much the only Chinese people seen in the ad are the ones in the pictures of devastation and heartbreak.
I don’t know how to fully articulate what I’m trying to say – it just seems weird. It’s like having a billboard about rates of abortion in the black community, and putting a picture of a little blonde girl on it.
That said, it seems like a good organization, with a multi-pronged focus on the various ways in which women are hurt by this.
I agree with you Alexandra – the blonde Caucasian does not fit in at all. Even if one of the parents were Caucasian and one were Chinese, I highly doubt the child would turn out like this girl.
Unless the ad is meant to target Caucasian donors. In other words, would they be more willing to give to the cause by featuring a pretty blonde Caucasian?
Any other thoughts?
LL
I’m getting in to this discussion pretty late. However, it should be pointed out that if overpopulation is of extremely great concern, it makes sense to reduce below 50% — by obviously unnatural means — the percentage of women in the society. Women, after all, have the wombs. Thus, that 500 women a day may be driven to suicide by forced abortion might be considered a BENEFIT of the one child per family policy. This figure sounds very high but I don’t want to bicker about figures. When a one child per family policy is brutally enforced, when women are commonly pressured to have abortions, especially multiple abortions, the resulting grief and despair could easily drive some to suicide.
China wants its population to be drastically reduced. The most obvious, albeit inhumane, way to do this is through a quasi-gynocide. That appears to be what is happening in that country. Both the abortions of female fetuses and the suicides of women pressured into abortion radically decrease the “problem” — the people with wombs, the women.
The country is not going to reverse course if it is proven that women are killing themselves due to the psychological problems caused by the forced abortions of female fetuses. In fact, I think the country may even decide to enforce the policy more rigorously so as to lead even more of its women to end their lives — and thus remove their wombs.
Luckily, concern with population has pretty well dissipated in the West as birth rates have fallen to just below replacement level. However, it should be remembered that any campaign to decrease population can easily turn into a war on wombs — and the gender that has them.