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An end to forced late-term abortions in China?

All Girls Allowed, a U.S.-based organization advocating the end of China’s one-child policy, recently announced that they “received word that China’s central family planning leaders have ordered local affiliates to modify their enforcement of the One-Child Policy.”

This order from the Chinese government was issued on August 30, and it calls for the end of forced late-term abortions and forced sterilization. Several horror stories have come from China this year, showing that the government was enforcing the one-child policy through the use of forced late-term abortions. In particular, the story of Feng Jianmei and the graphic image of her next to her then-recently aborted child caught international attention and resulted in leaders worldwide condemning China’s enforcement of its one-child policy.

What remains in effect, however, are the large fines that couples can be charged if they have multiple children. All Girls Allows points to one couple who was recently charged over $11,000 USD for their second child, even when they had permission to have another child. While fines may not be the physical deterrent that forced abortions are, they will still have the effect of financially punishing those “guilty” of breaking the policy.

President of All Girls Allowed Chai Ling released this statement:

When God told Moses that the Red Sea would part, it did. Last year a prophecy was given that God would end the One-Child Policy in China, and I rejoice that God is already doing it. The media’s exposure of this injustice has been invaluable, and people in China and around the world are standing boldly against injustice. This has made China understand that they can no longer hide the brutal truth. Minster Wang Xia’s order to end forced abortion is awesome progress.

I hope that this latest news brings all our nation’s voices together to help speed the end of the policy. I urge the Obama administration to uphold the rights of women in China by pressing China to go even further in its rollback of coercive family planning. I am grateful for Chen Guangcheng’s advocacy, Congressman Chris Smith’s (R-NJ) faithful three-decade fight against forced abortion in China, for Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Mitt Romney’s calls for the end of the One-Child Policy, and for the open condemnation of the One-Child Policy in the Republican party platform.

Even with Minister Wang’s call to end late-term forced abortions, the policy remains coercive: it still threatens parents with huge fines and job loss for having a second child. Human rights will take a back seat as long as the government continues to use family planning fees as a major revenue source. China cannot genuinely claim that the policy is ‘coercion-free’ until it no longer threatens parents’ livelihoods and ability to provide.

   
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  • PD

    “When God told Moses that the Red Sea would part, it did. Last year a prophecy was given that God would end the One-Child Policy in China, and I rejoice that God is already doing it.”

    The speaker just lost all her credibility in one breath. if i agree with her point i will never even know because i couldn’t read further. so now Christians are openly following prophets again? i haven’t gone to church in 7 years and, apparently, i missed out on a lot…

    • Jordan

      Yeah, a lot of them do. Charismatic ones. Usually depends on the denomination. If whatever church you belonged to before didn’t follow prophets, I doubt they do now.

      • PD

        I guess I learned something today. Thanks Jordan :). Can you give any examples? I’d like to look more into it…

        • PD

          i got downvoted (not that it matters whatsoever) for learning, thanking someone, and asking for more information? wtf is wrong with some of the people on this site?

    • JB

      It wasn’t the author writing of prophecy, it was the head of All Girls Allowed. Regardless, how can you be so sure that God does not use prophets now, as he did in the OT? I, for one, am not so sure, and I will be the first to admit it. Perhaps a little less cynicism and a little more praise is in order to the only one that could bring change to such an evil policy.

      • PD

        I realized I wasn’t quoting the author. I’m sorry if I failed to get that across. But anyway, we have a word for “prophets” today. Schizophrenics. Before we go further you should know I’m atheist, so I don’t even believe that there were prophets in the OT either. They just didn’t understand psychotic disorders back then… And anyone who says they hear god speak to them should be evaluated.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ashley-Newman/1557146137 Ashley Newman

          Atheist believe is some pretty pathetic, hilarious stuff my friend. Have you seen the end of Expelled, where your prophet Richard Dawkins preaches we were “planted” on earth by “aliens”?!?! :) LOL Thanks for the laugh PD, I needed that.

          • PD

            your ignorance is showing… atheists only have one thing in common: the disbelief of gods. So what do all atheists believe that is pretty “pathetic, hilarious stuff?” and no i haven’t seen expelled, but it sounds like Dawkins is speaking of panspermia, which is indeed a scientific hypothesis. (just because you don’t or can’t understand it doesn’t mean it has no merit. and Dawkins is not a prophet or a preacher, to say he that he is is a gross misunderstanding of both atheism and religion. so go ahead and laugh away, you only make yourself look uneducated.

          • vohl

            hey, I believe in God. so peace. what kind of value are your comments to this article anyway? the whole point of this article is to raise the awareness that China is still not loosening its toll on current and potential victims of one child policy. then here comes PD the atheist who reads the article up to the point where Moses is mentioned and automatically, his atheist mindset closes his mind and he directs his vent out in the board against this well-intentioned All Girls Allowed movement. PD, while you’re wasting all our precious moments here trying to counteract your stance against Christianity, the All Girls Allowed movement and other humans rights activists are fighting against the violation of human rights globally. to all you commentators on this board: let us direct all our valuable attention and time to thinking about how we can continue to push China to end its unjust policy instead of wasting our precious minds to argue against this pathetic atheist here. this is my petition to stop wasting time with PD!

        • vohl

          PD, please be respectful of others’ points of view. being an atheist does NOT make you entitled to trash-comment others’ religious standings. I am giving a fact of historical accuracy here: we enjoy the freedom we do today in America because our founding fathers embraced the Christian worldview of individual freedom of life, equality, and right to pursuit of happiness. please stop trolling here with your biased views. what evidence do you have that modern-day prophets are Schizophrenics? those that are Schizophrenics are NOT prophets as some of them may claim themselves to be. please follow the logic here. in fact, I can be a prophet here telling you these things, and I assure you that I am perfectly mentally healthy and enjoy all the rights and responsibilities that I have.

    • LowlyOne

      PD, it’s easy to tell the difference between a prophet and a schizophrenic. A prohpets words NEVER fail to come true. The bible even tells people to use this observation to tell the difference and to not trust until they prove beyond doubt they are a prophet.

      • PD

        couple problems with that. there are indeed prophecies in the bible which have not come true. and perhaps the writers left out some of the ones that didn’t come true. and perhaps the original prophecies were altered or their meaning was changed in order to be “fulfilled”. Nostradamus comes to mind. a while back people thought that he predicted the trade towers falling, when in fact his verses were so vague they could be applied to nearly anything with enough imagination.

        read this: http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/farrell_till/prophecy.html. it gets my point across much better than i could here.

        • vohl

          PD, what is the evidence that some prophecies in the Bible has not come true? all prophecies are coming and will come true in the future. why in the world are you focusing so much on prophecies as if that is the only criterion you are using to judge the validity of going to church? you are clearly no Bible expert, so what makes you venting out so much about going to church just cuz you got your mind so fuzzled about some prophecies? also, you seem to miss the most important piece of the Bible anyway – the fulfilled prophecy of the birth, death, and resurrection of the Messiah. please stop using your blind, ungrounded assumptions to deter others from seeking the truth. i hope that people the world over will stop subscribing to ungrounded, unproved assumptions of others’ biased views. peace. ’nuff said and done here.

    • vohl

      you’ve just lost your credibility, PD. for someone as close-minded and blind as you, you’ve completely lost your credibility. for someone who confessed to not have attended church and doesn’t even understand a bit about the Bible, what credible argument can you give against Chai Ling, the president of the human rights advocacy group that you’re apparently against just because she professes to be a Christian? if you apply your reasoning skills just a bit, all of history points to the fact that the Christian worldview provides the set foundation for the value of human life. that is why Chai Ling proclaims her organization to uphold these Christian values to change hearts and minds in China to be as free as it is in the West where the government for centuries have uphold Christians values of individual freedom and equality. so, I advise you, PD, to reconsider your basis for condemning this article just because it refers to something related to Christianity.