By David Tang, Associated Press and Simon Elegant from Time
Beijing >>Horrifying details recently emerged in the news of alleged forced abortions in China’s impoverished rural provinces. 61 pregnant women were dragged to hospitals and injected with labor inducing drugs to end their pregnancies.
The Chinese government insists that they have banned forced birth control throughout the country but primary sources report a different story. The government knows these practices of forced sterilization and abortions are abhorrent to the Chinese people and have sparked passionate resistance in the country. In June 2012, an aborted 7 month fetus was shown on the internet. The government is now trying to make financial reparation to families when their current situations warrant it.
Meet Gong Qifeng who can remember, when her mind is clear, begging for mercy for her unborn son’s life as several people held her head, legs ,arms and ankles down as she was forcefully injected, directly into her stomach with a strong labor inducing medication. She was 7 months into her pregnancy with her second baby boy. 35 hours later, after excruciating pain, Gong delivered a stillborn baby.
“It was the pain of my lifetime, worse than the pain of delivering a child. I can not describe it,” said Gong, 25, recently in an interview in Beijing.
The forced abortion was administered over two years ago but her horror continues with the diagnosis of schizophrenia which she developed after the loss of her baby. This young couple has now gone to the capital to demand payment for the expensive medications they are unable to afford for Gong.
Even in parts of India, gender family planning is popular. I think it is a choice and not law, as girl babies are unwanted. This is due to the ancient practice of dowries and payment to the husbands at the time of marriage, which is now against the law in India. In the rural farm area of the Junjab, there is a problem at the present time, of a lack of girls available to be wed to the young men. I read, but don’t have the reference, that brothers are desperately sharing one wife to produce heirs. Also, women from Kerala are plentiful and desired for wives, but they are very unhappy to go so far from their families in the south.
There is much condemnation throughout the world both for gender selection abortions, forced abortions, sterilization, and lack of mercy, forethought, and humanity . . . .. and of the unforeseen consequences. . . . . . . . . . . A mother’s love is universal. . . . . .
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My grandson married a lovely Chinese girl who is the 2nd child out of five (she has two sisters – one older and one younger, with two younger brothers) which I’ve found fascinating, given media reports such as these. However, she grew up in a rural area and tells very funny stories of hiding from the tax collectors, when neighbors turned their family in. Ultimately, taxes on the additional children took a heavy toll on the family’s finances, and yet the 3 oldest children (daughters!) all received high school and a college education (high schools are private and are paid for by the family). The media reports are horrible, but there are exceptions to rules, even in China!
She did however, once mention that she does not (love/respect) her paternal grandparents because when she was born they suggested to her parents that they put her out to die. While I have never had the opportunity to meet her family, I can’t help but think they must be rather exceptional.
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Of thank you for taking the time to share that wonderful story. I think you should encourage her to write her memoir for her children and grandchildren. It shouldn’t be lost in time and space. I taught a Chinese girl who was born with a deformed hand and club foot. She was put out on the sreet to survive on her own or die at 4 years old. The Chinese don’t keep special needs people. She was picked-up by a missionary and raised in an orphanage until she was 8 and then adopted by a wonderful couple who adopted her and two special needs Indian children to add to there family of 3 children , already! There are heroes
who are kind , loving and respect life! Blessings!
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That is so very sad.
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Wow, incredibly sad and horrific…and a great post, there is so much out there that I think we in the free world take for granted. A mother (or potential mother) having to deal with such things…I cannot imagine.
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This is horrible. This world is really lacking in humanity.
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Absolutely! All this talk about human rights and then things like this are condoned and encouraged.
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i have seen many news reports about this and each one fills me with such sorrow. so many wrongs in this world.
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I had not seen or heard it before I read it in the newspaper in Hawaii. We have to be vigilant and the voice of the helpless!
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