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Posted on August 9, 2016 by Reggie Littlejohn
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2) Forced abortion continues. It is still illegal for single women to have babies in China, and for couples to have third children. It appears that some may be given an opportunity to pay a fine, but Li Bo tells “those who couldn’t afford the fine to terminate their pregnancies.” In other words, if a woman is illegally pregnant and cannot pay the fine – which can be as much as ten times her annual salary – she is forced to abort. Forced abortion, therefore, continues under the Two-Child Policy.
3) Women pregnant without permission are considered criminals. Li Bo’s statement that women who are pregnant without permission “were breaking it (the law) so it is just like the clash between a policeman and a thief” demonstrates that such pregnancies are still considered illegal; and illegally pregnant women are regarded lawbreakers deserving of punishment, just like thieves.
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By Lucy Ash BBC News, China
4 May 2016
From the section Magazine
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"People didn't swear at us but they probably did behind our backs," he says. "It's natural because we were carrying out the law and they were breaking it so it is just like the clash between a policeman and a thief."
He adds that as long as restrictions are in place, such clashes will continue.
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He was bundled into a minivan and taken to a nearby hotel where the beatings continued.
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"They were kicking my son and slamming him against the floor," says the mother. "I just couldn't bear it any more so I called my daughter-in-law to say 'Let's give up the baby.'"
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"I made a phone call to the local discipline inspection," says the father. "But I was told that they couldn't intervene in the work of family planning officers - those guys are so powerful they just do whatever they want."
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Two-Child Policy Abuses: WRWF Files Complaint Against China at the United Nations
Posted on August 4, 2016 by Reggie Littlejohn
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Characterizing this latest modification as “abandoning” the One-Child Policy is misleading. A two-child policy will not end any of the human rights abuses caused by the One Child Policy, including forced abortion, involuntary sterilization or the sex-selective abortion of baby girls. Read the full hearing transcript here, including statements by Co-Chairs Representative Christopher Smith and Senator Marco Rubio:
www.cecc.gov...
Coercion is the core of the policy. Instituting a two-child policy will not end forced abortion or forced sterilization. As blind activist Chen Guangcheng succinctly tweeted:
This is nothing to be happy about. First the #CCP would kill any baby after one. Now they will kill any baby after two. #ChinaOneChildPolicy
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originally posted by: llpoolej
Wow. Yes, I can say your beliefs are wrong. I think this may have been some of the craziest things I have read on ATS and I have been on here a long time. Unselfish? In what way? Hey, not really feeling like dealing with another kid, I am just gonna kill ya, since I am so all about you. . OK. My guess is there is a whole lot of true guilt going on disguised as righteous indignation.
Another courageous article from Shanghai online news portal Sixth Tone describes the continued desperation of re-married women in Guangdong.
Six months pregnant, Anxiang and her husband were forced to choose between aborting her pregnancy or losing their government jobs, because they had violated China’s new Two-Child Policy. They had thought that they were allowed to have another child, but were caught in an omission regarding remarried women in Guangdong Province. At the end of July, they were told to abort, or face fines and dismissal.
Because it was too late in the pregnancy to abort via medication or suction, Anxiang (not her real name) had to abort via induction. On August 1, she had an injection to terminate her daughter. Two days later, she was induced and went through labor in order to deliver the still-born child. The next day she sent a heartbreaking message to the WeChat group of remarried couples in Guangdong. “I saw my daughter. She didn’t move. She was dead.”
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originally posted by: Annee
What a surprise it took this long.
Please give me One, just One unselfish reason to bring a kid into this world.
originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
originally posted by: Annee
What a surprise it took this long.
Please give me One, just One unselfish reason to bring a kid into this world.
Bringing a child to this world and taking care of that child in itself is unselfish.
originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
Give us One reason why you think having an abortion, that is not to really save the life of a mother, is unselfish?
originally posted by: Annee
How is that unselfish?
originally posted by: Annee
Did that child ask you to do that?
originally posted by: Annee
You're doing it for you.
originally posted by: blueman12
A realistic religious view for once! I've seen many become parents and do a sh!tty job. Creating a child should be a priveldge, not a right. Abortion helps prevent people from being bad parents. It's not like our massive population requires an increase in newborns.
It can be a very selfish thing to have a baby. It's becomes a desire to be a mother then when they actually have to take care of it they don't.
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
originally posted by: Annee
What a surprise it took this long.
Please give me One, just One unselfish reason to bring a kid into this world.
Bringing a child to this world and taking care of that child in itself is unselfish.
How is that unselfish?
Did that child ask you to do that?
You're doing it for you.
originally posted by: Grambler
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
originally posted by: Annee
What a surprise it took this long.
Please give me One, just One unselfish reason to bring a kid into this world.
Bringing a child to this world and taking care of that child in itself is unselfish.
How is that unselfish?
Did that child ask you to do that?
You're doing it for you.
So your argument is then that everything is selfish.
I see a homeless man, I give him $10, thats selfish.
I see a homeless man. I kill him, thats selfish.
No difference between the two, right?
originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
a reply to: Annee
Riiight, because in your opinion caring about another life more than your own is selfish... Gotcha.
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
a reply to: Annee
So at month 9 women can abort their babies in your view. Got it.
Not your business.