Posted on 05/22/2007 10:01:26 PM PDT by monomaniac
Beijing, China (LifeNews.com) -- Thousands of Chinese residents have been rioting in southwest China over the last few days as citizens confront local officials over a campaign of forced abortions there. The protests began after family planning authorities began forcibly aborting women for violations of the nation's one-child population policy.
As LifeNews.com has previously reported, Chinese family planning officials in Guangxi province forced at least 61 women in April to have abortions as late as seven and nine months into pregnancy.
Women said were forced to have abortions because they were unmarried, while other women were married and pregnant with their second child.
The abortions have all occurred at the Youjiang District People's Hospital of Baise City, where local officials denied the forced abortions were occurring.
An official named Nong told National Public Radio that forcing women to undergo abortions against their will would be against the law and claimed that an investigation by officials into the reports had already been concluded and that officials determined the reports of forced abortions were fabricated.
Because of the alleged violations of the family planning policy, officials in Guangxi recently increased fines for offenders and began seizing or destroying the property of people who cannot pay the fines.
The News York Times reports that Guangxi officials have issued fines from 500 yuan, or about $65, to 70,000 yuan, or about $9,000, on families who violated the policy at any time since 1980.
But some of the citizens of the area say the fines were instituted even on people who had already paid them. However, failure to pay the fines is leading officials to destroy homes of those who don't cough up the money.
Responding to the government's actions, local people in Guangxi overturned cars and set fire to government buildings and riot police entered at least four towns in the province to suppress the protesters.
Still, Reuters says local government officials would not comment on what took place.
The Xinhua News Agency, which is the official news outlet run by the Communist government, previously reported that the Baise City government last year missed its family planning target by a fraction of 1%.
Observers say missing the family planning goal may be the reason the forced abortion campaign appeared out of nowhere.
Gotta make your monthly quota in those Worker’s Paradises!
From what I’ve been hearing, those aborted children almost certainly did not go to waste.
Isn’t Communism beautiful ???
Imagine the horror, irrespective of such laws, as the jack boots come to take your pregnant wife away to brutally kill the child you hope for. I'd fight too.
Guess the Planned Parenthood “choice” Gestapo is a bit unpopular over there in the Old Peoples Republic of China.
What’s amusing about all of this is that by forcing the poor to have fewer children than the rich the Chinese government is condemning wealthy children to a life of poverty. You have to have an underclass to dig ditches.
Second who are the little scions of wealth going to marry? 1 million more boys than girls and growing.
Amen. Wishing these courageous people the best.
Going by what happened in Italy, it's not too very encouraging:
Girl Suffers Forced Abortion in Italy
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TURIN, Italy, February 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An Italian judge ordered a 13 year-old girl to undergo an abortion, despite the girl’s pleas to let her keep her child reports the Italian news agency, La Stampa.
The girl, Valentina, had become pregnant by her 15 year-old boyfriend, however rather than let her choose to keep her child, her parents demanded she have an abortion on the grounds that she was ruining her life by becoming a mother.
“You cannot hold this child ... you must abort, and father will never have to know,” Valentina’s mother told her, saying that she did not have the money to support the child.
Despite Valentina’s repeated attempts to make her parents understand she wanted to choose to keep her baby, the case went to the Court of Minors. Judge Giuseppe Cocilovo then issued the ruling to abort Valentina’s child.
Under Italian law, a minor may not decide whether to keep or abort her child, and may be forced by her guardians or parents to undergo an abortion.
However, the abortion has meant nothing less than disaster for Valentina, who was confined to the psychiatric unit of Regina Margherita children’s hospital in Turin after the abortion for wanting to commit suicide.
“You have made me kill, and now I kill myself, I kill myself”, cried Valentina. “I do not want here to be,” Valentina repeated. “I am not crazy, I am only evil like a dog for what my parents and the judges have obliged to make to me.”
The case of Valentina is an egregious case of forced abortion in Italy, where one would expect that a woman‘s “right to choose” would mean the possibility of choosing life. However, the silence of purportedly “pro-choice” feminist groups has been deafening thus far over 13 year-old Valentina’s forced abortion, despite her very own choice that her body should carry life.
If such atrocities won’t foment an immediate and fiery revolution, it is hard for me to imagine what might.
If someone tried to do that to my wife and child, it would immediately become a kill or be killed situation. No doubt about it. Someone would die.
pro-choice is never pro-choice. rush calls them feminazis for a reason. also, prayers for pro-life never go to waste. that girl was the recipient of someone’s prayer, just pray now she recovers and can join the fight!
It’s terrible for those people. Sadly, there are at least two pro-choice people that I talk to online who, while one saying she doesn’t support forced “choice”, support a policy similar to Chinas. She thinks that people should have to go through a process to reproduce similar to that of those who adopt. Otherwise, they should have to use birth control or be sterilized. He thinks that people should have a maximum of 1-2 children, and then the government should pay them for vasectomies. I believe that Planned Parenthood supports China’s policy. That of course continues to contribute to the fact PP doesn’t care about choice, but they care about $$$. Good for these people for trying to stand up to the evil Communist regime!
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