Sex-Selection Abortion and China's Brutality: Shall We 'Gulp and Get Over It'?

6/19/2012

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they held her down," said Mr Deng to All Girls Allowed, a Christian organisation in the United States that campaigns against the One Child policy. "They covered her head with a pillowcase. She could not do anything because they were restraining her," he added. He said his wife had tried to kill herself after the abortion.
Mrs Feng told All Girls Allowed that she could "feel the baby jumping around inside me all the time, but then she went still"..
Chai Ling, of All Girls Allowed, said officials had "launched a campaign of forced abortions". Li Yuongjiou, of Ankang's family planning department, told Caixin, a magazine, that the town had missed its targets under the One Child policy for two years, and this year there was an emphasis on stricter enforcement."

So, shall we still "gulp if we must, and then get over it"?? But that's China, you say, not the United States. We don't forcibly abort here! We're all about choice!

Look at those pictures, and see our future. Actually, look at that baby and see our present. No, our government doesn't hunt down pregnant women, abduct them off the streets, drug them, beat them, and then violently kill their babies against their will, thank God.

But the instinctual revulsion and horror we would rightly feel at the thought of tearing the arms and legs off a baby or stabbing a baby in the heart has been diluted in our hearts and silenced in our consciences for 40 years now. We've been told we have to allow abortion even if that thing in the pit of our stomachs won't leave us in peace. We've been told to disregard that voice in our heads screaming that it can't possibly be okay to kill a child.

We've been told abortion is a good thing for women and society, and those unsightly remains of bloody babies are just anti-woman propaganda. Yeah, it's not pretty to look at, so do yourself a favor and stop looking at it. Forget the baby; it's not human anyway.

All we're left with is a mere feeling of uneasiness and discomfort at the idea of targeting girls in the womb, and now that discomfort, we're told, we must swallow down and "get over"

Babies like Feng Jianmei's are killed in our cities here in wonderful America every day, and we call it our "right." Children are ripped from the womb in pieces and we call it our "choice." We are well on our way to becoming China. If people heed Ms. Benedikt's directive to just "gulp, then get over it", the only possible destination is China.

Ms. Benedikt, take a good, long look at the photos of Feng Jianmei and her dead baby. Be horrified, if you still can be. Look at the baby. That's no blank slate. That's a child. That's what your precious "choice" destroys while you play deaf, dumb, and blind to everything but your sacrosanct "right".

All of you who insist you can personally be opposed to abortion but cannot "impose" your beliefs on anyone else, take a good, long look at that child. Now tell that child you just couldn't "impose" on anyone else. Sorry, baby.

Is there anything left that will shock our numbed sensibilities? Fr. Frank Pavone is absolutely right when he says America will never reject abortion until America sees abortion.

Well, America, I dare you. Take a long, hard look at Feng Jianmei and her murdered little baby. That's abortion. Don't just gulp and get over it.

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Jennifer Hartline is a grateful Catholic, a proud Army wife and homeschooling mother of three children. She is a contributing writer for Catholic Online. Visit her online at Wake Up, Deborah!
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Keywords: abortion, China, forced abortion, one-child policy, Feng Jianmei, Jennifer Hartline

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JoAnn
10 months ago
Mom: Even Jesus had a traitor among his closest friends. Judas was one of His apostles but yet betrayed Him. There are "rogues" in all faiths. The Catholic Church is the Church that Jesus instituted and Jesus promised that the Holy Spirit will always guide Her. Sooo, her teachings are truth because the truth is Jesus. The Church cannot teach false doctrines because she is protected by the Holy Spirit. She is One, Holy, & Apostolic, that doesn't mean that the people in it are holy. We are sinners. All of us, even the clergy. My take on it is, we don't leave Jesus because of Judas. God bless.
Mom
11 months ago
I strongly believe that abortion is without question the violent murder of the most innocent of lives. We cannot truly be against the government practices of China if we allow our corporations to manufacture goods in China.

Lastly, I know that as a good Catholic with a strong faith I am not suppose to bring up this subject, but ... I equally believe that child rape by adult men regardless of their profession in life is yet another type of murder. Yet, the outcry for these victims is also sometimes muffled by power and greed. Paedophilia cannot be cured nor treated. For this reason, those with this mental disorder should not be protected by the Catholic Church, nor allowed to serve as priests. This matter has certainly greatly affected my belief in the leaders of the Catholic Church, but not in my belief in all that is right and in my faith in God.
Rob
11 months ago
Lest we all forget, take a look around your home, particularly that computer you are posting these responses with. Where is it made? Between Wall Streets almost blood thirst quest for the dollar and our consumer habits, we are just as culpable for feeding this beast. Companies are rewarded in increased stock price when they send their jobs their. Wal-Mart has not become one of the most successful business empires in our country because no one shops there, they have done it because almost everyone shops there. Where do you think all this cheap crap comes from? Our self love and inability to embrace the cross has created an idol out of our standard of living. We've become the country of the fat, happy and lazy who really only wishes to do those things that does not disrupt my life in any way. It's hard enough organizing pro-life activities in our own community, much less come together enough to fight things like this. We've allowed ourselves as a people to become so dividided it's no wonder we can't influence these things. Someday we will hold life to a higher degree than our wallets and actually effect change. Pay close attention, I don't hear any of the candidates talking about abortion. I don't expect Obama too and truthfully, I don't really expect Romney to say more than what he's told to say on it. But what right as a country do we have to tell China anything when abortion is legal in our own country? And so long as we value the economy over life, there is absolutely no way anything will change in this country.
JeanCatherine
11 months ago
SEND A COPY OF THIS STORY IN THE SNAIL MAIL TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND TELL THEM HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT ABORTION IN THIS COUNTRY.

ALSO SUPPORT SUSAN B. ANTHONY. A CONGRESSMAN JUST HAD THEIR COMPUTERS CONFISCATED BECAUSE THEY ARE RIGHT ABOUT ABORTION.

KEEP IN MIND FOLKS ITS ALRIGHT TO HAVE WOMEN'S RIGHTS BUT HISTORICALLY THE SUFFRAGETTES WHO GOT US THE VOTE NEVER CONDONED ABORTION IN ANYWAY. SUSAN B. ANTHONY NEVER CONDONED THIS PRACTICE.

MAYBE THEY ALSO KNEW LIKE MOTHER THERESA THIS ISNT THE WAY TO SECURE HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL.
dufekin
11 months ago
United States of America borrows money from People's Republic of China--enough that the interest alone provides almost the entire budget for the Chinese People's Army--and then donates some of it voluntarily to United Nations Population Fund, which in turn helps People's Republic of China to execute this brutal totalitarian policy of annihilating its own posterity (especially baby girls). How much longer until this program tyrannizes American women? Well, the federal government very soon will mandate that even Catholic Charities provide free contraception, sterilization, and even abortifacients to all their employees and the wives and the daughters of their employees. That the Catholic Church considers contraception, abortion, and sterilization intrinsically evil matters not; that the Constitution explicitly forbids Congress from making any law establishing religious doctrine or prohibiting the free exercise of religion constitutes an obsolete irrelevancy unworthy of notice. In a few years, the federal government or its contractors will possess and maintain the information necessary to compile a database of who receives these drugs and pseudo-medical procedures.

You state, "If people heed Ms. Benedikt's directive to just 'gulp, then get over it,' the only possible destination is China." Well, I can tell you that the Congress and the President eagerly desire to take us to that destination, and that destination we shall approach.
Manuel Dias
11 months ago
The genocide of abortion is sinful to God and we must all do our very best to stop it.

Our President took an oath to protect all Americans, yet he condones the butcher doctors of abortion to rip a baby from the Mother's womb for the purpose of killing the child.

This is no different from what the Chinese are doing to their women and their babies.
Murder is murder. America just does it under the guise of Pro Choice.

We all have our choices. Either Life or death in eternal fire.

MAY GOD OPEN PEOPLE'S HEARTS AND HELP US STOP THIS GENOCIDE AROUND THE WORLD
Marydymphna
11 months ago
For the sake of Christ's sorrowful passion, we beg for mercy of God and the conversion of the evil perpetrators.
Brian
11 months ago
Stuff like this make me cry, no offense, but Im tired of crying, other than praying for these children, I dont see what else can be done, Im not a cold person by any means, but short of a war with china, I dont see what else one can do. Your not going to defeat the communist mindset. All this is terrible.
Lynn Hamilton
11 months ago
China is behaving atrociously toward women, especially poor women. This latest case of Feng Jianmei who was dragged to the hospital, head in a bag and beaten along the way, is but one of many injustices that have been enacted on mothers who cannot pay the second child fine. I've written a petition asking China to revisit and restructure its one-child policy: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/408/936/695/china-dont-force-poor-women-to-have-abortions/

If you agree, I hope you will sign it and share with others. Thank you!
Susan
11 months ago
Torn apart, His crucifixion continues . . .

In the arms of the Angels little one.

Forgive me for not being there to help you, your mother and father.
Pray for this broken, lost world, too blind and selfish to see its Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ.

When will the world remove the veil of power and greed, deceit and arrogance and ignorance?
When will the world become one as Christ and His Father are One
When will we all be One in Christ?

When will we stop crucifying Christ?
When will we live in His Resurrection?

When will we thank Him with our lives?

Imagine a world without violence
Imagine a world of Peace and Love

Imagine
and carry out and implement what you imagine . . .

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