In America, abortion is seen as a lovely thing that allows people to choose when they have children. They can plan out their families, their lives wont be interrupted by untimely babies, and women are no longer constrained by the inconveniences of pregnancy.
In China, abortion is entirely something different. It's worlds apart.
Because of fears of overpopulation, China has developed a one-child policy. In 1979 China adopted the policy that allowed couples to only have one child, and penalized those who had a second. This has brought on all sorts of problems, problems that we can only wait to see how they will play out in the future. One of the biggest examples is gendercide; because of the culture's emphasis on having boys and the liability it is to have a daughter, many couples abort or abandon their daughters until they can have a boy. This has created a distorted sex ratio that will leave 50 million Chinese men without wives.
The horrors of the one-child policy seem to be catching America's attention more and more. Recently, a photo from June 3, 2012 was released of a woman named Feng Jianmei. She was beaten and dragged into a car by Family Planning Officials. They demanded RMB 40,000 (about 6,300 American dollars), but when her family could not supply the money they forced her to abort her seven month old baby.
After the forced abortion, they laid the body next to her in bed.
This is hard to stomach. How sick that something people fight tooth and nail to defend in our country is the cause of so much suffering and injustice in another?
If a child is aborted in the U.S. or in China, for the child, the world's pretty much the same.
ReplyDeleteJust sayin' -- if it tragic (for the baby) in China -- then it's equally as tragic (for the baby) here in the West.
@David, it IS equally tragic for the baby. It's still a death. The difference is that, in the U.S., the biggest pro-abort slogan is "choice", and "rights". Although many, if not most, mothers regret their abortions (and some mothers are forced by parents or boyfriends), they still choose it. In this case, a mother was forced to kill her child by the government. Of course, this happens all the time in China ... every day. The reason this story made the rounds was because of the disturbing visual of her lying on the bed with her dead baby.
ReplyDeleteWe hear these kinds of stories all the time, but the pro-life world decided to publicize this one because the picture made it unique. It was an opportunity to actually SEE the evil. Many times hearing it isn't enough; this is incredibly evident in Western churches today.