FLOTUS to China...will not address forced abortions, sterilizations in favor of youth empowerment

Why should we be surprised that the First Lady, Michelle Obama, will not address the one child policy, forced abortions and forced sterilizations on her upcoming trip to China.

“We don’t think that the first lady should make this a focus at all of her trip,” Rhodes said. “This is a very different purpose. This is the purpose, again, of building those people-to-people connections; of reaching out to young people in China, broadening the ties between our two countries. So we’ll continue to raise those issues in all of our diplomatic contacts with the Chinese. I think the first lady’s message and I think her — the nature of her visit is quite different.”
Rhodes told the conference call that Mrs. Obama’s visit to China will “focus on people-to-people relations” as well as education and “youth empowerment.”

It would be laughable for her to abandon her radical support of abortion on demand to lecture China on their policies when her and her husband's abortion support is just as extreme. Besides they depend too heavily on the campaign contributions from the nation's promoter and provider of abortions....Planned Parenthood. However, I choke on the youth empowerment lingo.

Stanek:Harrowing details of Chen Guangcheng’s escape; accomplice gone missing

This is amazing....for those of us who take our freedom and safety for granted....

"I’m struck by the obvious heroism of these people, trying to stop forced sterilizations and abortions. It is a sobering gut check. How much are we willing to sacrifice to stop abortions in America?"

Cross Posted at Jill Stanek.com

Harrowing details of Chen Guangcheng’s escape; accomplice gone missing

Read my previous post on Chinese pro-life dissident Chen Guangcheng’s escape to the U.S. Embassy, where he has reportedly been holed up since April 22.
According to the Los Angeles Times this morning, an agreement has been reached between the U.S. and China that Guangcheng and his family, pictured below, will remain in his home country as is his wish, with assurances they “can live a normal life, including relocation to a “safe environment” and ability to attend university.

Now come harrowing details from Reggie Littlejohn of Women’s Rights without Frontiers, explaining exactly  how this blind man under house arrest made his way to freedom.
According to LAT, Guangcheng’s accomplice, He Peirong, mentioned in Littlejohn’s report and pictured right, is still missing, as is Chen’s nephew, Chen Kegui. Reading Littlejohn’s account, I’m struck by the obvious heroism of these people, trying to stop forced sterilizations and abortions. It is a sobering gut check. How much are we willing to sacrifice to stop abortions in America?

He Peirong is a petite woman with a spine of steel.  I know her because she spearheaded the movement to free Chen Guangcheng inside China, while I have played a similar role in the U.S. and Europe.  That’s where the similarity ends.  I have advocated for Chen in complete safety.  Peirong, however, has been beaten and detained repeatedly for this extremely dangerous undertaking.  Now, she is detained again, for rescuing Chen.
How did Chen escape?  The Chinese Communist Party clamped down on him as hard as it could.  His house was surrounded by 66 guards working in three shifts – 22 guards every eight hours.  His village was sealed off by yet more guards.  His phone, computer and television were confiscated.  He was completely shut off from the outside world.  Plus he was sick and injured from all the beatings.
According to Peirong, Chen spent months on his back, pretending to be near death, so that his guards would relax their vigilance.  Then on April 22, with exquisite timing, he scaled a wall and ran for his life, taking several wrong turns and falling into a river because of his blindness.  Peirong drove 20 hours to meet Chen and fooled the village guards into letting her in.  She disguised herself as a courier.  Then she drove Chen another eight hours – still wet from his fall in the river – to safety in Beijing.  Their plan was so masterfully executed that the authorities did not realize Chen was gone for four days.
Once authorities discovered that Chen was missing, the reprisals began.  The Chinese Communist Party violently detained Chen’s older brother and nephew, and his wife, children and mother are at risk as well
As news of Chen’s escape was breaking, I skyped with Peirong on and off all Thursday night from Dublin, where I had testified about Chen at the Irish Parliament.  Peirong was alone and worried – about Chen and his family, and about her own safety.  Peirong knew that the price of securing Chen’s freedom might be her own.
At about 5:00 a.m. Dublin time, I skyped Peirong one last time and she did not answer. She had been detained, and no one has heard from her since.   We don’t know if Peirong is being tortured or whether her detention will last days, months or years.
In pressing for Chen’s freedom, let us also press for the freedom of his rescuer, He Peirong, a hero in her own right.   She stood up for Chen during his time of greatest need.  The least we can do is stand by her as she pays a terrible price for her courage.

[Middle photo via LAT; bottom photo via Women's Rights without Frontiers]

Chinese change slogans but not policies on one child only....

Live Action spotted this story ... China is attempting to change their slogans  regarding their one child  mandate  but not their policies.  They freely admit this is all propaganda. 

Their harsh one child policy is still in place but they want to have kinder, gentler ways of expressing it.

Instead of ..." “Kill all your family if you don’t follow the rule” and, “If you escape (sterilisation), we’ll hunt you down; if you want to hang yourself, we’ll give you the rope”. 

The research said milder expressions should be used to “avoid offending the public and stoking social tensions”.  Does this remind you of an organization that parse their words to make killing babies sound kinder, gentler....Planned Parenthood???


The Chinese  are  also sensitive to the  unintended consequences of gender imbalance so they also have a benign suggestion of .... "Caring for the girl means caring for the future of the nation.”  

Think the Chinese use focus groups?








Photo: dsprel.wordpress.com

China: Good Samaritan is the 19th passerby of the toddler left bleeding in the street after being hit by a van.

Commenter notes important point I missed...the child was a girl. Less valued in China and the most aborted. But I wonder if that was obvious to those passing by.

This article  shows the shocking disregard for human life.  

A van runs over a 2 yr.old, pauses and then runs over her again as he pulls away. The child lies helpless and bleeding while people walk and bicycle past her.  A second vehicle even comes along and hits her again.

Yes, this is China where forced abortions and the cruel one child policy have deadened their conscience  toward the sanctity of human life.  The  article points out that  another factor could be the  "compensation  culture for the apparent show of callousness, recalling a famous 2006 judgment when a Good Samaritan who helped a woman get to hospital was wrongly ordered to pay her compensation."  

However, no one even called for emergency assistance for the child.

We have seen this happen in the US with adults  but it took 18 people passing by a bleeding child in the street someone  rushed over to help her. The good Samaritan, the 19th passerby  was a 58 yr. old woman who was a street cleaner.

"... many others said there could be no excuse, and that the scenes in the video should “shake the soul of every conscientious person” in China"

In the world....I might add. It shakes mine.

China's policy repugnant then why fund them via UNFPA?

Direct question deserves a direct answer.

Women's Rights without Frontiers acknowledges that Biden and his boss Obama are trying to walk back statements by Biden on China's one child policy. They acknowledge that this policy includes forced sterilizations  and abortions and even call it repugnant. Well the follow up question hits straight to the heart of issue with the question."

 

"If China’s Forced Abortion Is “Repugnant,” Why Are You Funding UNFPA?" We await the answer.

Say it isn't so...Joe... no issue with China's one child policy

Update: The Administration is trying to explain that Joe did not mean what he said in China  about China's one child policy because  Biden and his boss truly oppose the policy that results in forced abortions, gender selection  and sterilizations. 

This is the man that is one heartbeat away from being president!  Well if you cannot trust him to go alone on a trip abroad...keep Joe home and muzzled.

I suggest that he and Obama who are showing  their pro abortion allegiance.  Life News points out "

"The speech represents a second missed opportunity for the Obama administration to present a clear position against the policy that is one of the most egregious global human rights abuses in modern times.
Biden’s comments follow a visit earlier this year from China President Hu Jintao, where President Barack Obama apparently failed to ask the foreign leader about the problem of forced abortions on Chinese women. Ask during a U.S. House hearing, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton couldn’t say whether Obama brought up the massive human rights abuse millions of Chinese women endure if they break the country’s one-child family planning rules."

Forced abortions, sterilizations, gender abortion ....no problem for Vice President Joe Biden. He will not second guess their policy  or condemn it. Hey it is all about the economics, right? Disgraceful!

"Your policy has been one which I fully understand — I’m not second-guessing — of one child per family."

Penny Nance, president and CEO of Concerned Women for America had some straight talk for Joe:

“Vice President Biden’s approval of China’s one-child policy, which uses forced abortion to enforce the law, crosses the lines of ignorant and wrong. Then to suggest that the United States should learn from China’s policy, like forcing its citizens to have only one child, to help manage debt, is an insult to the basic American values of life and liberty,” Nance said. “Also, Concerned Women for America wants to know if Biden’s position is the official administration’s stance on the one-child policy in China.”

Photo: Daily Caller

Gendercide: China's shameful massacre of unborn girls means there will soon be 30m more men than women

 You hear more states passing laws against abortion because of gender...could this happen here....and where is the Women's Movement in all of this ......where is the condemnation? Are they so beholden to the abortion industry they helped create that they are ready to throw the girls "under the bus." This is what happens when we play God. People  that are into biblical prophecy studies point out that this male dominance in this country will be  a player in the end times. Fascinating. But getting back to the USA. Ultra sound technology helps us at an earlier age to determine the sex.....it was more fun in the days when you waited until birth to find out.....but what is to stop a woman from aborting due to the gender of their child regardless of the laws. No reason is asked for in the abortion mills....no reason is offered. If you have the money, the abortionist is ready. But passing the laws serves to point out the ugly face of abortion to the population who are not engaged in this death issue...

By Peter Hitchens
Last updated at 10:14 PM on 10th April 2010

In the cruel old China, baby girls were often left to die in the gutters. In the cruel modern China, they are aborted by the tens of millions, using all the latest technology.
There is an ugly new word for this mass slaughter: gendercide.
Thanks to a state policy which has limited many families to one child since 1979, combined with an ancient and ruthless prejudice in favour of sons, the world's new superpower is beginning the century of its supremacy with an alarming surplus of males.

A Danzhou classroom where the boys far outnumber girls

By the year 2020, there will be 30 million more men than women of marriageable age in this giant empire, so large and so different (its current population is 1,336,410,000) that it often feels more like a separate planet than just another country. Nothing like this has ever happened to any civilisation before.
The nearest we can come to it is the sad shortage of men after the First World War in Britain, France, Russia and Germany, and the many women denied the chance of family life and motherhood as a result.
It is possible that the effects of that imbalance are still with us, in the shape of the radical feminist movement which found ready recruits among the husbandless teachers and other professionals of the Twenties and Thirties.
But men without women are altogether more troublesome than women without men, especially when they are young.
All kinds of speculation is now seething about what might happen; a war to cull the surplus males, a rise in crime, a huge expansion in the prostitution that is already a major industry in every Chinese city, a rise in homosexuality.

Girl talk: Peter Hitchens in a suburb of Kunming which is a hot-spot for child abductions in China

Three things are for sure. It cannot now be prevented, and it is already beginning to be obvious in the schools. It is also stimulating a miserable trade in stolen children.