Whomever flushed this baby down the toilet should also be flushed down the same toilet.
Why single out China? I’ll bet in happens somewhere in a US abortion clinic every single day.
Can we expect an international lawsuit from Planned “Parenthood” on behalf of the parents at any time now?
story seems fishy. A viable baby’s head and body is too big to fit down a toilet.
What’s disgusting is that these parents China’s Brutal One-Child Policy
By MA JIAN
Published: May 21, 2013 186 Comments
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LONDON — ZHANG YIMOU, the celebrated film director and arranger of the 2008 Summer Olympics’ opening ceremony in Beijing, was accused last week of being the latest high-profile violator of China’s one-child policy. The People’s Daily, the Communist Party mouthpiece, alleged that Mr. Zhang had fathered seven children with four different women.
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The news has ignited an angry online debate, with Internet users condemning the unequal application of a 1979 law that stipulates every couple may have just one child (or two for ethnic minorities and for rural couples whose first child is a girl). The truth is: for the rich, the law is a paper tiger, easily circumvented by paying a “social compensation fee” — a fine of 3 to 10 times a household’s annual income, set by each province’s family planning bureau, or by traveling to Hong Kong, Singapore or even America to give birth.
For the poor, however, the policy is a flesh-and-blood tiger with claws and fangs. In the countryside, where the need for extra hands to help in the fields and the deeply entrenched patriarchal desire for a male heir have created strong resistance to population control measures, the tiger has been merciless.
Village family-planning officers vigilantly chart the menstrual cycle and pelvic-exam results of every woman of childbearing age in their area. If a woman gets pregnant without permission and is unable to pay the often exorbitant fine for violating the policy, she risks being subjected to a forced abortion.
haven’t one ounce of sympathy. The Chinese government kills babies as one of it’s main functions.
How do people on this site, of all places, NOT know this?
from the NYT. Last week, no less:
How could any loving mother flush her baby down a toilet?
Or abort it instead. Seems beyond the pale of reason yet rare it is not.
The mother didn’t have the heart to snip its neck.
Do people think these people have nice lives?
Find out what is going on over there.
They live in constant terror of pregnancy and childbirth. THis stuff has been going on for decades.
WHere have people been.
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Nothing matters as long as “Free trade” continues and we can get slaves to make our crap and pay our own great unwashed to sit on their asses.
A girl, right?
I would like to flush my neighbors dog down the toilet.
That little runt dachshund never shuts his annoying yapping. Seems like he would fit down the sewer pipes just fine.
In America, we are much more humane - we have abortionists first snip their spines with scissors before flushing them down the toilet
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Different than Gosnell how?
(x 37th guy, I’m sure.....)
Now that is one, cute little baby boy. Shame on those parents. How horrific. I hope that little boy didn’t ingest anything while in there. Thank God he was retrieved safely.
It’s worldwide. Keeps the rabble down, out of cultured sight and prevents it from rising to compete. The worthy folks in charge love the Renaissance more than any other period of history (see renaissance courtly filth), so they’d like to see the world population limited to about 450 million or so. They don’t want to build onward and upward, so they make claims about the world running out of water and the like.
She could have sold the baby. A male baby is worth more, but even a female baby is worth something, because the one-child rule doesn’t apply to adoptees. Heck, she could have left the infant at someone’s door. What a crying shame...