Lou cares for some of her many
children along with her husband Li Zin.
Posted on 07/30/2012 4:14:51 PM PDT by wagglebee
JINHUA, ZHIEJIANG PROVINCE, China, July 30, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Although 88-year-old Lou Xiaoying may now be close to death, she will not soon be forgotten in her home city of Jinhua.
The Daily Mail on Monday recorded the astonishing story of the elderly woman, whose meager living recycling trash did not stop her from bringing home and caring for all the abandoned infants she came across - all 30 of them.
Lou cares for some of her many
children along with her husband Li Zin.
“I realised if we had strength enough to collect garbage, how could we not recycle something as important as human lives,” she said.
“These children need love and care. They are all precious human lives. I do not understand how people can leave such a vulnerable baby on the streets.”
Under China’s one-child policy parents must obtain a pregnancy permit or face severe penalties, and it is estimated that some 35,000 abortions are committed per day in the country - many of them forced. Investigations have revealed that human rights abuses under the policy are rampant, with family planning police often dealing with “illegal pregnancies” through forced abortions and infanticide.
The woman says her rescue effort began in 1972, when she found a little girl “lying amongst the junk on the street, abandoned.”
Today, Lou suffers from kidney failure, and pictures show her on a hospital bed, where two smiling children interact with her.
Her youngest child, seven-year-old Zhang Qilin, was found in a dustbin as an infant when Lou was 82 years old.
“Even though I was already getting old I could not simply ignore the baby and leave him to die in the trash. He looked so sweet and so needy. I had to take him home with me,” she said.
Last week, outrage shook the Internet when it was revealed a premature baby girl in Anshan city, Liaoning province, had been thrown in the trash with umbilical cord still attached, in a plastic bag with her throat cut. Doctors said she would have died of suffocation within minutes, and had the cut been any deeper, it would certainly have taken the baby girl’s life.
One fan quoted by the Daily Mail said that Lou’s remarkable charity to unwanted infants has put China’s Communist Party to shame and made her a local hero.
“She is shaming to governments, schools and people who stand by and do nothing. She has no money or power but she saved children from death or worse,” said the fan.
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Take a good look at those pics. Pictures of a living saint. She saved 30 with no money by digging through the trash. Makes you wonder what we could do having infinitely more economic resources.
I will always give thanks for whoever delivered my daughter to the door of the orphanage when she was left.
To Americans, that's a movie cliche, but in China it's a more risky proposition. Abandoning a baby is punishable offense, and their orphanages are part of a larger "Social Welfare Institute" structured somewhat like a small college campus in our country.
In a country that fines like $1800.00 for littering, leaving a baby in a government facility like that has to take a yard of guts.
You can be proud of the fact we're "doing it."
The wait for Chinese adoption is between six and ten years right now.
I vaguely remember a similar story about a historical character, but I seriously doubt it was Wallace.
That whole disemboweling and dismembering thing is something people seldom survive.
Hey, Hollywood!
This is the kind of story you should be making movies about.
This is one story I would go pay good money to see. And, I only go to the movies about once every 5 years.
We need to let the world see what monsters there are in this world, especially in countries such as China; and we need to see how there are such good people in the world, such as that caring and elderly Chinese couple.
Everyone of us can save precious children by crying out to their mothers on their way into abortion clinics to murder them. This is what we can do today to save babies in our country. Not all will be saved, but think of the ones that are. There should be thousands outside of every so call abortion clinic everyday that they are open for business. It is truly to our discredit if we are not there as much as we possibly can be.
Yup, I’ve been to some of them and sometimes I’m the only one and sometimes there’s a few people out there praying or sidewalk counseling.
In a country of 300 million people and over 1 million aborted each year that’s a joke. Don’t tell me America is a Christian country, I wish it were but it’s not, if it were those places would be surrounded by people every single day.
I think this happened fairly early in William Wallace’s career. He was 6”4” which is why I suggested she may have had help getting him onto her cart. Whether saving Babies or grown men kindness is what counts.
Either way she saved Scotland’s national hero from death before he had become that hero.
A great woman! I’m sorry to hear that she is dying. If only she had the health to continue on. Others who know her, those children she saved who have grown up, have to take her place and save the babies rejected.
The sad thing is that there are a lot of American parents who would love to adopt these children. It’s a shame that it’s a difficult process.
The rampant rate of female infanticide in China via abortion is a perfect example of the law of unintended consequences which should horrify liberals, but doesn't. Liberals outside China should also be horrified at the killing of the weak, infirm, and physically disabled, but it's quite possible that **WAS** an intended though secondary consequence of the Chinese one-child policy.
Perhaps the only good thing about the Chinese one-child policy is that, with time, the male-female gender disparity will produce severe social problems and lead to a population crash comparable to what is now facing Japan. If China were working on expanding its population as well as its economy, it would be a much more serious threat down the road to the Western world.
The sad thing is that China really **DID** have a major problem with feeding its own people. Too bad they didn't apply capitalist techniques to farming so they could feed an expanding population, rather than trying to forcibly control the population size by massive use of abortion.
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