Erica Herndon
2/4/2011
China has had a disturbing little secret that has just finally started getting some light shone on it Imagine being told that you had to abort your child that you’ve been carrying for nine months or even a child you had planned on having and just realized you were pregnant? Neither can I but this is something that has been happening overseas in China. Back in 2007, studies showed that dozens of women in southwest China were forced to have abortions. Sadly, some of these abortions were even as late as nine months. China has strict family planning laws, only permitting urban married couples to have one child each. Single women were forced to abort their first child because they are unmarried. Wei Linrong was seven months pregnant with her second child when she was forced to have an abortion. The process she described was horrific and stomach turning. To make matters worse, Wei and her husband are devout Christians and they do not believe in abortions. They arrived in a hospital which was full of other women and not a single bed was spared. They performed a procedure where your baby will be terminated and be delivered as a stillborn. The nurses then wrapped the stillborn babies into black plastic bags and threw it in the trash like it was nothing. What these women go through is an atrocity and needs to be stopped. People may have their own separate opinions about abortion, but the choice should be theirs to make.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9766870
1 comment:
China's One Child Policy is absolutely disturbing and disgusting. I wish they could think of an alternative method for population control.
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