A Life ‘Destroyed’ by China’s Forced Abortions Tells All to Congress
In 1999, Mei said, “I escaped the country that humiliated and destroyed me, and came to the free soil of America.”
Mei became a Christian and, after the brutality of the regime led to her marriage falling apart, reunited with her husband.
“I feel happiness, but know that back in China there are millions of women who are suffering like I did,” she said. “Every day, thousands of young lives are being destroyed.”
Another witness before the subcommittee told of the “systemic elimination of girls” in addition to the forced abortions that “show why Chinese women face a climate so oppressive that a woman takes her life every three seconds.”
Chai Ling, founder of All Girls Allowed, told chilling stories of forced abortions at 9 months and of Ma Jihong, a woman who was dragged into a van last October when she was heavily pregnant with her third child and died from the forced abortion.
“I wish I could tell you that these stories were rare, but they are not,” she said. “They are mere glimpses into the dark environment that the one-child policy creates for women. This is the darkness into which Chen Guangcheng tried to shine a light.”
As at the emergency hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China on May 3, Chen was reached today on the phone by witness Bob Fu, who sat next to Chairman Smith on the dais as Fu held up the phone to Smith’s microphone.
Chen gave an update on the violent reprisals against his family and friends. This includes the arrest of his nephew, Chen Kegui, on trumped-up manslaughter charges after he wielded a knife to protect his home from intruders looking for his uncle after the house-arrest escape, and the beating of a lawyer for Chen who tried to visit his client in the hospital — who was hit so badly by state security that he lost hearing in one ear.
“This is a pattern already; this is not the first time against my family,” Chen said, his voice cracking, of the violence that also included the beating of his elder brother.
Soon, the witnesses were all up on the dais, gathered around Smith and the voice of Chen, with Reps. Anne Marie Buerkle (R-N.Y.) and Karen Bass (D-Calif.), offering their encouragement and vowing to fight for Chen as long as it takes.
“I’m not a hero,” Chen said. “I’m just doing what my conscience asked me to do.”
Smith entered into the congressional record a list of 10 family and friends of Chen whom members are “deeply concerned” about, who have suffered detention or beatings.
Today, Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) sent a letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao, asking that he take steps to ensure the safety of Chen, his family and associates and let them “travel freely within and outside of China.”
“Mr. Chen Guangcheng’s circumstances are emblematic of the plight of thousands of Chinese rights advocates, such as Hu Jia, Teng Biao, Zeng Jinyan, Gao Zhisheng and many others that work tirelessly and under state-directed threats to their safety and their relatives’ towards greater respect for their fellow citizens’ political and economic rights under Chinese law and China’s international obligations,” the senators wrote. “We urge your government to seize this opportunity to end the harassment of rights advocates and embark on a new path towards greater respect for human rights in China.”
Smith vowed to keep shining light on Chen’s situation and the tragic policy in China under which “brothers and sisters are illegal and women are treated as criminals.”
“They say repeatedly that the program in China is totally voluntary when it is totally involuntary,” Smith said — a point highlighted by today’s sobering testimony.
So lets go to war with China over this.
Oh wait, that’s not going to happen. So what’s the point of an article like this? There are many, many terrible things done by the government in the US – why not write about those things? Let’s get our own house in order before we meddle in other country’s business.
In case you haven’t been watching, Planned Parenthood in the US gets a substantial amount of funding from your and my tax dollars, all under the flimsy guise of “protecting women’s health” as if to say that getting pregnant is equal to getting the flu.
Population control, in all its many facets is a utopian dream for the national socialists and always has been. They want enough rubes to confiscate taxes from while living life as they please and directing others on how to live theirs.
China is a perfect example of this mentality. They fear overpopulation for many reasons but the single, largest fear is that the masses will heavily outweigh the governing body, which it pretty much does already. But being as the government is “uber-alles” (over everything, in the wonderful Nazi catch-phrase jargon), they would have to redirect resources to feed, house, clothe and educate the booming population. So, with the flick of a bureaucrat’s pen, the situation is such that only one child is permitted per household and any extras are to be eliminated.
How can this possibly make sense to anyone not heavily steeped in a science-fiction mentality? How can this possibly “fix” anything?
I think it’s magnificent that this person testified before congress and though I’m sure there weren’t a whole lot of national socialists (democrats) present, the impact is significant. However, you won’t hear about it or read about it in the “mainstream” news outlets. “The Providers” will see to that.
I’m also kind of curious about your isolationist position. Though it’s true that the US is in dire straits, one cannot ignore the constant glaring man’s-inhumanity-to-man examples worldwide. Iran, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Brazil, China…all great examples of how not to be. Yet our political leadership thinks they are sterling examples of how things need to be done. They praise European nations that continue to flush cash down the public toilet and insist that’s how a nation should run.
1930′s Germany anyone? Does anyone learn from history? And since history is not properly taught in our schools anymore, our children are condemned to repeat it. Oddly enough, the one truly solvent nation right now is Germany and they were all taught in school that being German is a sin because of WWII. However, the Germans I’ve known and been friends with got tired of that BS long ago and still have a high degree of national pride and strong character while acknowledging what their forebears did was wrong…but that it was their forebears, not them.
I think we could learn a lesson from that about the whole equal rights stack of BS.
I’m with Jeremy on this one. The bogeyman of HItler’s Germany doesn’t scare anyone anymore because we have our own bogeyman right here, right now. Don’t you see that WE are becoming Germany? Do you seriously think that our police forces WON’T turn their guns on us? That most of our miliary WON’T detain Americans? Because I can’t say that anymore. Plus we have at least two generations of absolute drones. Oh, and let’s not forget the 70 million illegals that have invaded our land.
And you want us to care about China? We could fix that overnight by stop importing and buying their junk. Oh – and stop them from stealing our intellectual property. Seriously, what have they ever invented in the last 100 years? What patents do they hold? The only thing they are good at is stealing.
Actually, we’re in violent agreement on this one. I was simply stating that China stands as the perfect example of what can happen in our not-too-distant future if we let it.
Using the examples of how not to be is something the national socialists in this nation fail to do. They find the most despotic nations to be “bastions of human rights”.
The path to serfdom is paved with lots of state-give-away programs to get everyone in line then they take it away.
I want us to stop funding China’s abuses.
Is that too much to ask?
That is the point of this article.
Read the rest of the paragraph……
no…we do not learn from history. we merely repeat it , like ground hog day. and bill murray is the american public.
We waste our time on china’s misdeeds..like they care what the heck we think. ewww..what are we going to do about it??? nothing. just waste time and money. which our politicians are really good at.
so many smoke screen going on..anything to divert attention, and we fall for it..
No, liberals do not learn from history. To be more specific, they REFUSE to learn from history. Read “Liberal Fascism” by Jonah Goldberg. He explains that in the liberal mind, there is no need to learn from history because their hearts are in the right place. To liberals, the end justifies the means, because their morality is relative. As long as they are working for the “greater good”, all’s fair. They do not, however, give any indication of who determines the “greater good”.
So lets go to war with China over this.
All we had to do was NOT turn over the activist to the Chinese authorities (and crying “war” hardly justifies your moral depravity).
You are one sick s..o..b!!
As long as we are HUMAN, the barbaric practices forced upon other people ARE our business. It’s NOT all about US.
No man is an island
No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as a manor of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man’s death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
-John Donne
Jeremy,
I presume you are a taxpayer, like me. I don’t want my tax money used to support eugenics, do you?
A picture went viral around China a few months ago. A Chinese husband came home and found his pregnant wife gone. This was her second pregnancy and they wanted a brother or sister for their first child, despite that it is forbidden.
His neighbors said some men came and took her away. The man rushed to the village medical clinic and found his wife in a room, drowsy, after having received a forced induced “delivery”. She said where is my baby? The husband looked around and the dead baby was lying at the bottom of a bucket which had been filled with water. He snapped a picture of the dead baby in the water-filled bucket and it made the rounds in China and other places. I saw it.
Jeremy, do you want your taxpayer money given to China to do this horrid sort of thing? I don’t.
Agree with Jeremy, we are wasting resources and time on items that have nothing to do with USA and slowly spiraling into deeper and deeper hole.
The economy is a wreck with congress continuing to give away US Sovereign authority.
Armed drones are flying inside US airspace with FAA coordinating licensing of drones for private surveillance companies in the near future. 30,000 drones are on being considered for funding. This alone should shock the sheep to open their eyes.
The American citizen has become a jellyfish, drifting with the tide.
we are wasting resources and time on items that have nothing to do with USA
USA tax money is at present funding those forced abortions.
If we could only be China for a day! Thomas Friedman’s progressive paradise! Central planning for all! It’s sobering to know that Friedman’s little dreamland is a nightmare in reality.
If only Chen could have stopped Saddam Hussein from ripping babies out of incubators in Kuwait. Or saved Marie Colvin, warned Alexander Litvinenko, arrested “Kony”, thwarted Naser Abdo, silenced Fred Phelps, spat on Ahmadinejad, decked Hugo Chavez, sucker-punched Qaddafi…
A real blind hero can only do so much.
The Roe v. Wade decision contains a discussion near the beginning of the opinion about the consequences of a grant of power to a secular government. The justices made the point that a grant of power to intervene in a decision could not be made to guarantee a given result. At the time, people read that decision, saying “that could never happen.” A few years later, China initiated its population control policy, with the predictable result: a wholesale slaughter of the innocents.
The justices in the Roe v. Wade decision have forced each abortion decision to be made on a case-by-individual case basis, by the parents. They have kept the power to complel abortion from the government.
If Barack Obama is re-elected, and if Obama care is not repealed, we will see, within the next 5 years, the use of the Roe v. Wade decision to defend the choice of a woman to have her baby — in the United States.
So we borrowed $165 million from the Chinese to give it to the UN to send it back to the Chinese? WTF?! That’s just stupid. What the money is being used for is appalling, but for the love of Sam,can we please stop paying them interest to do it?
I often mock our liberal friends my mimicking them. But some issues are far too concerning to speak in any way but plainly. Plainly we must speak of this issue. The Chinese government is the ultimate example of the disease, the pure rot of the “progressive” mind. I must turn to faith when I read of such atrocities. I read of such horror and can only believe what the the Good Book tells us (paraphrasing): the struggles of this world are not of the flesh, but of the spirit. I believe there is a spiritual force at work, decaying man, doing everything in it’s power to separate us from the love of the Almighty. I believe this. This dark force – call it what you will – works overtime to ensure that we humans not only turn from God, but ultimately recognize ourselves as the Creator. That is the ultimate Glory of this dark force, to convince the creation that it is paramount, that it exceeds the true Creator. In no way does this dark force exceed more than when he convinces man to kill man….in the womb! What greater insult, what greater rejection of God, what greater elevation of the creation than to convince man that it has the right, the “moral” authority, the power to snuff out God’s greatest creation before it even takes a small, tiny breath? And I swear to you, it is Satan’s greatest achievement to have convinced an entire nation to make the snuffing of God’s creation national policy! And it goes so, so much further. Satan screams, “Look Father, look what I did to you! Millions of your children are dead, dead in the very womb, and look at the living, the lives that continue, look at how THEY are ruined! I have separated MILLIONS from your love! I have harmed you at the core!”
And our good president? Ah yes, I once had to convince a very irrate man that he is, in fact, not a Muslim. Many have wrongly accused him of being Muslim. No, he is neither Muslim nor the Christian he professes to be. He is an atheist, but not just any run of the mill atheist who just wants to live life witnout the idea of a bothersome god. No, our beautiful, caring, healing president LOVES child death. No? HE WENT TO BAT FOR PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION. He has no problem in supporting legislation that allows the killing of a child, born alive, breathing, within a certain time frame after birth. Don’t believe this? GOOGLE IT. Don’t believe my silly words, determine for yourselves. Obama and his sick, man-hating, soul crushing freaks rejected God long ago. That is why they all believe, to a person, that government is the answer, f’in Julia is their wet dream. They believe in man! They have already rejected god in favor of the creation. I remember some freak Obama official telling a reporter that Mao is her “hero”. This administration is not filled with your grandma’s democrats. No, no, they are something much different. This election is not about democrats vs. republicans, tea-partiers vs. the OWS crowd, progressives vs. conservatives. No, this election is a battle of the spirit my friends. We must change course, for the sake of our children, born and unborn. LE.
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” (Ephesians 6:12)
Government is the answer, for them, only in as much as it is the means to power. Their master is the father of lies who was a murderer from the beginning, the one who roams the earth seeking whom he may devour. Talk about useful idiots!! Devoured themselves and instruments of the one great devourer. Blind, confused, and lost. But what a lot of wreckage they leave in their wake.
A lot of those “useful idiots” have actually made the choice to serve evil willingly with their eyes wide open. They may act like they are atheists and what-not, but they are in actuality full-blown satanists who have sold their soul to the devil for power on earth. Andh they are in positions of high power.
I don’t doubt that at all, lolly.
Standing ovation, LE.
Thanks for speaking plainly.
I agree with every word you wrote.
BTW – I’ve always enjoyed your satires!
Four things I took from this article:
1) China is in decline.
2) The U.N. is into eugenics big-time (like all enviro wackos evil the Duke of Edinborough)and is using American taxpayers money for nefarious and evil purposes in order to further extend its corrupt tentacles worldwide.
3) China is our enemy; NOT our friend.
4) We, via our POTUS are participating in, and responsible for the killing of babies and for perpetuating a cruelty and horror akin to the worst of the Nazi atrocities … and we ignorantly say “move along nothing to see here”.
To Husky: Eugenics is increasing throughout the world, by the process of “gradualism” (the Globalist policy of introducing one policy change after another to achieve their end). We have abortion as the major one (yes that is population control but over here in good ol NZ, we recently had “free contraception” offered for all low income workers and those on social welfare-that is the way the NZ Govt complies with the UN Globalist Eugenics ideology.) Well, “er, yes, if they DON’T accept free contraception, they MAY risk losing their welfare.” We have pre-screening of babies, to sort out those who are mongoloid or deformed in some way, so that the doctor can inform the parent of their “right” to destroy the child before it is born. It will, I believe, become compulsory eventually.
But to say that “China is our enemy,” is not true-their Government is our (those of us in the West,) enemy. The Chinese Govt. is also the enemy to the people of China. The Govt. of USA and of NZ (and other countries) is the enemy of their own people. None of us have any say on Voting Day, the Globalists decide who will “win” the elections. I can guarantee you that if the only people who vote for Obama in November are himself and his wife, he will still get in as president, to finish destroying the economy and selling off US sovereignity (just as our PM John Key is doing here), to prepare the way for Global Government.
Forced abortions in China are not done in a clean, sterile hospital room on a bed-they are carried out in large concrete rooms (so the floors can be hosed afterwards), with the mother thrown on the floor screaming and begging for the life of her unborn, and usually around 100 others waiting their turn, she is crudely aborted in the most painful manner on the floor and often left to die in agony alongside the bloodied foetus. This is the harsh reality. It is gut-wrenching! The stats for women who commit suicide in China outweigh any other suicide stat of any country (though I forget the stats right now. Googling it will tell.) Should we care? Yes. As individuals, for our Governments will not help.
If you feel powerless, at least protect your own heart from becoming calloused from the atrocities we learn of each day, simply by caring. Protect the better part of yourself; stay human-care, pray, cry. Believe though, that life is MEANT to be good, that reality is goodness, kindness, love, mercy, beauty of character and scenery,dwell on these things not on the horror we read of each day or witness. Deal with the evil in our own hearts by confessing it to God and asking that the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanse us from it. Ask Him to change us on the inside-as only He can. God bless all the PJ people! I have learned much from many of you. Thank you guys too, for making me laugh at times! I read PJ early in the morning when I go through emails.
And be comforted by His Promise: “I will wipe away every tear from their eye,” says the Lord, “and there shall be no more mourning or sadness or death or pain. They shall be My People, and I shall be their God.”
Why the screaming silence of Obama and Clinton on matters like this while these two are obsessed with issues that pale into insignificance when compared to this decades long brutality in China?
What would it take to get these two to speak up and back their words with actions against the Chinese leadership who have caused far more deaths and suffering than Hitler ever did?
It is time for all who are deeply moved by these testimonies to raise their voices. It is time to expose the obscene hypocrisy of Obama and Clinton and many other politicians in the USA and other first world countries – who are happy to trade with China but pussyfoot around the brutal treatment of ordinary, defenceless Chinese.
This is one way a regime destroys itself. There are others — overspending, as we do here; persecuting its most intelligent and creative minority, as the Nazis did; overextending itself militarily, as we’re perilously close to doing — but brutalizing its fecund women is a particularly blatant case.
China has a terrible surplus of single men of marriageable age…who can’t find brides. Why? Because the Chinese culture overvalues male babies, and the regime limits each couple to one child. If there’s anything more predictable than eventual social upheaval among young, unmarried men unable to find women, it’s escaping me at the moment.
No, this will not be China’s century.
Look goofus poster #1 – the topic here is to raise pressure to stop funding the UNPF.
It’s evil. I’ m sure in your concern about the state of the US economy et al, you’d be
Pleased with an expense reduction, no?
Remember the video last year of the little girl in China who gets run over – twice – on a busy street and people just walk by or right over her while she is dying?
OK that is China.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050081/Video-footage-girl-2-run-TWICE-dozens-people-ignore-China.html
I have a daughter with a hyper-active independent streak who thought it would be terrific to travel to China (at the conclusion of her teaching assignment in Seoul). She’s been a lot of places: England, France, Germany, Hungary, Sweden, Czech Republic, Croatia, Italy, Ecuador, Japan, South Korea (probably others I can’t now remember). But she has never feared for her life and felt as vulnerable as when she was in China and traveling from Dandong to Beijing and staying overnight in both those cities.
That’s not to say that she did not encounter some very kind people there (in Dandong especially), but overall she was stunned by the discourtesy of the Chinese and the sense that she was in danger (she was also robbed by her cab driver who lied to her about the fare).
I was too.
Yet I met some VERY nice people. My clients for my second project there were very gracious hosts. I just retired the wallet they gave me as a gift for helping them out.
O/T Mark v, but could you tell me, or direct me to where I can learn, how to bold and italicize as you did in your reply?
It’s interesting that China seems to have stopped pretending that its one child policy was repealed. I guess they found it wasn’t working. Sort of like trying to convince the world that Chinese skies are paisley with occasional splashes of chartreuse.
I’ve worked in China a few times, on engineering projects. I got to know some of the people very well, much more than is possible on a two-week business trip. I lived and ate in their world, not the American enclave. I survived, too!
(Chinese food in China is NOT the same as Chinese food in America, and sanitation practices are, uh, different.)
While there, I learned that the “one child” policy can be flexible for the well-connected, or certain folks who are deemed to be useful to the state. For example, important scientists, star athletes, or performing artists may be allowed 2 or 3 children. Only the most elite, of course, but the exceptions are made. Oh, and of course, those who are politically well-connected can pretty much do as they please.
Say, isn’t this the kind of thing the leftists are supposed to be against? Special privilege for the elites? The common man gets the shaft and the 1% crowd gets the goodies?
Oh, yeah, that’s right. This is about killing babies, so it’s just fine with them.
If you want to hurt China don’t buy their stuff. Tell your friends, neighbors, co-workers and church members. Tell them WHY! Don’t look to our government to do a thing – but on an individual level STOP SUPPORTING THEM!!!
The worthy organization of “witness Bob Fu”: http://www.chinaaid.org/
I wonder if China will call Alvin Toffler, James Hansen and Paul Elrich to testify in their defense?