HK (Hong Kong) saves mother, baby from forced abortion in China

Taipei Times/AP ^ | 7-12-05

[tallhappy]

HK saves mother, baby from forced abortion in China

AP , HONG KONG
Tuesday, Jul 12, 2005,Page 1

Chinese officials tried to force a mother who was visiting from Hong Kong to abort her six-month-old fetus under China's one-child policy, but Hong Kong's government intervened to save the unborn baby, a newspaper reported yesterday.

The Hong Konger, identified only by her surname Hong, and her two young children were staying with relatives at a town in Hunan Province when family planning officials came to their home and said she had to get rid of the child, Hong Kong's Apple Daily said.

The officials tried to drag Hong to a hospital but her relatives stopped them, and Hong then contacted Hong Kong authorities who asked Hunan police to intervene, the report said.

Local officials later apologized to Hong, who arrived in Hunan on June 28 and was planning to return to Hong Kong yesterday.

For three decades, China has limited most couples to one child to stem population growth in the country of 1.3 billion people. Critics say the policy has led to forced abortions.

Hong Kong maintains separate political and economic systems, and the one-child policy doesn't apply there.

Hong Kong's Immigration Department helped Hong as much as it could, department spokesman Sunny Ho told reporters. Ho declined to provide details.

A woman who answered the phone at the press office of Hunan's provincial police department referred questions to the department's immigration control division. Phone calls to that office didn't go through.

[tallhappy]

Simply because the "authorities" of the communist government saw a woman who was pregnant and all ready had a child they literally were dragging her off to force an abortion on her.

Know this and remember this when you hear the mutitude of Chinese regime apologists talking how China isn't totalitarian or is moving toward democracy, isn't so bad anymore etc ad nauseum.

[DB]

Just think how morally bankrupt the people themselves are to allow this for so long.

When these people have real power, watch out... They won't be guided by any of the same moral principles (if any at all) that we take for granted here.

[andrew2527]

These people dream about freedom.

We have it.

God bless the United States of America.

[A2J]

forced abortion in China

And we give "most favored nation" status to these murderers.

I wonder how long before the hammer drops on us.

[CitizenM]

I wonder how many times this happened before and there was no rescue, and no news report either?

Remember too, SCOTUS and Roe v Wade, and now the recent vote to allow personal property to be taken by the government in the name of (at its whims) community good. It wouldn't be far for them to go the next step and give the govt. the authority to decide when/why to murder the unborn and take the right to bear children away from us also. Again, in the name of "community good."

Thank God Bush is president now and not Kerry otherwise the decision in appointing the new SCJ (or maybe two) could have paved the way for more "liberal" (socialist/communist thinking) interpretations of our rights and freedoms.

[topher]

Just think how morally bankrupt the people themselves are to allow this for so long.

It is worst than this story. They have been selecting killing girl babies for so many years there is now a shortage of women to marry. They are more deprived than this in a way that would interfere with breakfact, so I want you to enjoy your breakfast...

[freedomfiter2]

Chinese officials tried to force a mother who was visiting from Hong Kong to abort her six-month-old fetus under China's one-child policy

Please remind me why the government in Taiwan isn't considered the legitimate government. Also, how did Nixon get a reputation for being anti-communist?

[stormlead]

I believe that China can only really gain power by emulating the West. Their economy didn't take off until they adopted free-market practices, and I sincerely hope that, in order to gain political power, they'll have to assume Western values about the worth and liberty of the individual.
Why is it that tiny ole Europe dominated the world for centuries, and now the US, with about 300m, has far more might than significantly larger countries and territories? I'd say its because individual liberty is just about the greatest "force multiplier" there is. They can't beat us, so they'll join us, just like most of the Soviet Republics did.

[Eepsy]

So, where are all the "Woman Dragged From House, Forced to Abort At 36 Weeks" stories. Do journalists actually ever go to China?

[El Laton Caliente]

"I believe that China can only really gain power by emulating the West. Their economy didn't take off until they adopted free-market practices..."

Ask some of the companies that invested and got kicked out or anybody that has actually tried to take profit out of China's "stock market". Free market they are NOT!

[stormlead]

I never said they were a free market, just that they adopted some free market practices, as opposed to their bad old socialist days.
Their economy didn't really take off until they started international trade, let their farmers sell their excess crops, individuals own businesses, that sort of thing.
And I suspect the mistreatment of foreign investors will come back to haunt them in the future.

[kevin_in_so_cal]

This is from Wikipedia:

The ROC in the UN

The Republic of China (ROC) was one of the founding members of the United Nations and a permanent member of the Security Council from its creation in 1945. In 1949 the Communist Party of China seized power on the mainland and declared the People's Republic of China (PRC), claiming to have replaced the ROC as the sole legitimate government of China. The ROC government withdrew to Taiwan, where it has continued to rule ever since.

Until 1991, the ROC also actively claimed to be the sole legitimate government of China, and during the 1950s and 1960s this claim was accepted by the United States and some (though far from all) of its allies. While the PRC was an ally of the Soviet Union, the U.S. sought to prevent the Communist bloc from gaining another permanent seat in the Security Council. To protest the exclusion of the PRC, Soviet representatives boycotted the UN from January to August of 1950 and their absence allowed for the intervention of UN military forces in Korea.

In 1952, the ROC complained to the UN against the Soviet Union for violating the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance of 14 August 1945 and the Charter of the United Nations. The UN General Assembly has found that the Soviet Union prevented the National Government of the ROC from re-establishing Chinese authority in Manchuria after Japan surrendered and gave military and economic aid to the Chinese Communists, who founded the PRC in 1949, against the National Government of the ROC. Resolution 505 was passed to condemn the Soviet Union with 25 countries supporting, 9 countries opposing and 24 countries abstaining.

The ROC used its veto once - in 1955, the ROC representative cast the only Security Council veto blocking the admission of the People's Republic of Mongolia to the United Nations on the grounds that all of Mongolia was part of China. This postponed the admission of Mongolia until 1960, when the Soviet Union announced that unless Mongolia was admitted, it would block the admission of all of the newly independent African states. Faced with this pressure, the ROC relented under protest.

From the 1960s onwards, nations friendly to the PRC, led by Albania, moved an annual resolution in the General Assembly to transfer China's seat at the UN from the ROC to the PRC. Every year the United States was able to assemble a majority of votes to block this resolution. But the admission of newly independent developing nations in the 1960s gradually turned the General Assembly from being Western-dominated to being dominated by countries sympathetic to Beijing. In addition, the desire of the Nixon administration to improve relations with Beijing to counterbalance the Soviet Union reduced American willingness to support the ROC.

As a result of these trends, on October 25, 1971, Resolution 2758 was passed by the General Assembly, withdrawing recognition of the ROC as the legitimate government of China, and recognising the PRC as the sole legitimate government of China.

The Resolution declared "that the representatives of the Government of the People's Republic of China are the only lawful representatives of China to the United Nations." Because this resolution was on an issue of credentials rather than one of membership, it was possible to bypass the Security Council where the United States and the ROC could have used their vetoes.

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