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There are no words. A Chinese couple who managed to avoid authorities long enough to actually birth a second child were fined 1.3 million yuan ($204,000) after family-planning authorities deemed them 'rich in assets', LifeNews.com reports. So far this is the highest fine on record. Even worse is that the amount was compounded because the baby turned out to be a girl. Local family planning authorities worked with commerce, industry and township officials to investigate the couple’s finances. The parents were deemed “rich in assets� and hit with the highest fine on record. The shock of the amount is compounded by the sex of the...

I turned on my television Thursday morning and heard a beating heart. It was the beautiful, vulnerable sound of an unborn baby's still-developing heart, from an ultrasound. "We don't know her eye color," the voiceover said. "Whether she'll be a redhead or brunette. We haven't seen her toes, fingers or nose. But through the science of genomics we can look forward and begin to care for her future." The ad was for a medical group in northern Virginia. "Join the future of health," the commercial urged. It was quite the paradox that later that same day, the House of...

So we can ban super-sized drinks, but not this barbaric procedure? A handful of GOPers voted against this commonsense bill that would have protected vulnerable women from the hideous coercion of their husbands or partners who want offspring of one gender over another (usually boys over girls). China's vicious campaign against girls has arrived on American shores. Rep. Ron Paul an OB/GYN, voted with the Democrats, perhaps out of a federalism concern. The argument by Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee and other left-wing abortion fanatics is that this law would have led to women being "dragged out of doctor's offices" in an...

As I type, the House of Representatives is debating the future of civil rights: a girl's right to life itself. Is it OK to choose to destroy a healthy unborn child simply because you or your husband prefer a boy? Should it be legal in this country? The Constitution gives to Congress the power to enforce the 14th Amendment's guarantees of equal protection by appropriate legislation. And this week, in a historic vote, the House is going to consider using that power to ban abortions based on gender. The bill is called the "Prenatal Anti-Discrimination Act," or PRENDA, because it...

I have a suggestion for Invisible Children, the group that has almost singlehandedly made the obscure Ugandan despot Joseph Kony famous so that he can be brought to justice: How about a similar campaign to call international attention to the particularly heinous atrocities committed by abortion doctors in certain parts of India? The Indian abortionists are not only killing unborn female babies, according to Dr. Varsha Despande, a representative of Lek Ladki Abhiyan, an Indian advocacy organization trying to stop the practice of “gendercide.” Some also are feeding the aborted remains to dogs to cover up their crimes against humanity....

I have a suggestion for Invisible Children, the group that has almost singlehandedly made the obscure Ugandan despot Joseph Kony famous so that he can be brought to justice: How about a similar campaign to call international attention to the particularly heinous atrocities committed by abortion doctors in certain parts of India? The Indian abortionists are not only killing unborn female babies, according to Dr. Varsha Despande, a representative of Lek Ladki Abhiyan, an Indian advocacy organization trying to stop the practice of “gendercide.” Some also are feeding the aborted remains to dogs to cover up their crimes against humanity....

In The Third World, Unwanted Baby Girls 'Disappear’. It’s Called Gendercide. And It’s Happening In This Country, Too Those who abort unwanted babies because of gender should feel the full force of the law. Prabha Sivaraman, who works for Pall Mall Medical in Manchester, filmed during a consultation with a pregnant woman By Allison Pearson 24 Feb 2012 In a children’s playground in Manhattan’s Central Park on a glorious, quickening spring Saturday, much like today, I was with my daughter by the climbing frame when a massed battalion of buggies came through the gates. The parents unleashed their precious cargo...

Crematorium workers in Guangdong Province found an infant crying in a “medical waste” receptacle on its way to being cremated, reports Xinhua, China’s official news agency. The crematorium workers immediately sent the infant back to the hospital. Later that day, the hospital sent the infant back to the crematorium, dead. The hospital offered no explanation of the cause of death.

In the cruel old China, baby girls were often left to die in the gutters. In the cruel modern China, they are aborted by the tens of millions, using all the latest technology. There is an ugly new word for this mass slaughter: gendercide. Thanks to a state policy which has limited many families to one child since 1979, combined with an ancient and ruthless prejudice in favour of sons, the world's new superpower is beginning the century of its supremacy with an alarming surplus of males. By the year 2020, there will be 30 million more men than women...

"Technology, declining fertility and ancient prejudice are combining to unbalance societies" "The wife was giving birth.... and then a man’s gruff voice said accusingly: ‘Useless thing!’" "“To my absolute horror, I saw a tiny foot poking out of the pail...." ‘Doing a baby girl is not a big thing around here,’

Killed, aborted or neglected, at least 100m girls have disappeared—and the number is rising IMAGINE you are one half of a young couple expecting your first child in a fast-growing, poor country. You are part of the new middle class; your income is rising; you want a small family. But traditional mores hold sway around you, most important in the preference for sons over daughters. Perhaps hard physical labour is still needed for the family to make its living. Perhaps only sons may inherit land. Perhaps a daughter is deemed to join another family on marriage and you want someone...

Midtown Manhattan this week has been turned into an extra-specially intense maze of flashing lights, motorcades and those dudes selling noxious candied peanuts -- the former heralding the advent of the U.N. General Assembly and the latter simply a New York Thing That Will Not Go Away, Ever. This year's festivities will probably best be remembered for Muammar Qaddafi's theatrical hijinks (the tent, the rant, the shredding) and for the triumphant return of the United States to the world forum -- but on the sidelines of these conventions, there's been some significant (and long overdue) attention paid to the role...

The abortion debate brought home He and his wife have always been pro-choice; recently, they were forced to make the Choice. By Dan Neil May 6, 2007 MY WIFE AND I just had an abortion. Two, actually. We walked into a doctor's office in downtown Los Angeles with four thriving fetuses — two girls and two boys — and walked out an hour later with just the girls, whom we will name, if we're lucky enough to keep them, Rosalind and Vivian. Rosalind is my mother's name. We didn't want to. We didn't mean to. We didn't do anything wrong,...

"Population Control" Eyewitness Steven W. Mosher is president of the pro-family Population Research Institute based in Front Royal, Virginia. For more than 20 years, Mr. Mosher’s has been a leading voice speaking out against the abuse of human rights in Communist China. He was interviewed by John F. McManus, publisher of THE NEW AMERICAN.Q. How did your relationship with China begin?A. As a doctoral candidate from Stanford University, I was the first American social scientist to go to China after President Carter normalized relations with that nation in 1979. I spent an entire year living in a village in South...

Many Indians abort unwanted girls BOMBAY Stockbroker Amandeep Singh had a booming business in Bombay and seemed a happy man when he learned that his wife, Seema, had finally become pregnant 10 years after they married.     The childless north Indian couple went to a temple and prayed to the Hindu god Ganesh to bless them with a healthy son.     But then, a secret ultrasound test showed the baby growing in Mrs. Singh's womb was a girl.     "We want to have a small family with only one child, and we don't want it to be a girl," Mrs. Singh told a...

China has announced a "Care for Girls" program with financial incentives for those who produce daughters. According to China's official news agency, 119 boys are now born for every 100 girls; the "natural" ratio is 103-107 for every 100. By 2020, it is estimated that China may contain 30 to 40 million restless bachelors. In the early '80s, the one-child policy was selectively imposed upon the Chinese people as a way to override the popular choice to have two or more children. Additional pregnancies were subject to coerced abortion. The one-child policy did not seek to disproportionately reduce the female...

China's one-child policy has many odious dimensions, but the most gruesome aspect of this type of "family planning" is the murder of millions of infant girls. As a result, the ratio of males to females in China is unnaturally high, hovering between 117 to 119 boys for every 100 girls in 2000, according to China Daily and People's Daily. There are one-fifth more boys than girls because girls are so often aborted or killed after delivery. Chinese officials have in the past boasted about preventing 300 million births since the one-child policy was implemented in the late 1970s, and for...

Rural families in China, where there is a traditional bias for boys, are being offered cash incentives to stop aborting baby girls and help correct a sex imbalance, the China Daily said on Thursday. Under the "Care for Girls" pilot programme, girls would be exempted from paying school fees, insurance would be given to households until their daughters grow up and families with just one daughter would enjoy housing, employment, education and welfare privileges, the newspaper said. China has stringent rules on family planning that allow couples usually to have just one child, at least in the cities, and limit...

Code: ZE04072401 Date: 2004-07-24 90 Million Missing Females, and a $45 Trillion Gap The Fruits of Misguided Family Planning NEW YORK, JULY 24, 2004 (Zenit.org).- While the United Nations and family planning groups continue in their efforts to lower birthrates, several recent books have drawn attention to the severe economic and social problems linked to having too few children. One book, "Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population," takes a look at the consequences of an overabundance of young adult males, called "bare branches" in Chinese. Valerie Hudson and Andrea den Boer observe that China and...

Brute tyranny in China Posted: March 15, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Why doesn't anyone seem to notice the brute tyranny still being employed in China on a daily basis? Is it because China's economy is so big? Is it because China already has nuclear weapons pointed at us? Is it because U.S. businesses, including media corporations, have too much invested in China? Is it because China is paying off U.S. politicians? Is it because what's happening is just so scary most people prefer to pretend it's not happening? This weekend, Beijing issued its strongest ultimatum yet to...

If you think the United States Social Security system is headed for disaster in the next 10 to 15 years, you should consider the plight of China. Five years ago, each retiree in China was supported by 10 workers. By 2020 this ratio will have fallen to one to six, and by 2050 to one to three, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. China's population grew at an estimated average rate of 1 percent a year between 1991 and 2002. It was then officially estimated at 1.28 billion, though this may be a significant underestimate. Under-reporting of births has become common...

If you think the United States Social Security system is headed for disaster in the next 10 to 15 years, you should consider the plight of China. Five years ago, each retiree in China was supported by 10 workers. By 2020 this ratio will have fallen to one to six, and by 2050 to one to three, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.China's population grew at an estimated average rate of 1 percent a year between 1991 and 2002. It was then officially estimated at 1.28 billion, though this may be a significant underestimate. Under-reporting of births has become common since...