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The Horrors ofThe Horrors ofChineseChinese
Communism and itsCommunism and its
OneOne--Child PolicyChild Policy
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Tree nearTree near JuJu HuaHua flyover of the Guanflyover of the Guan
Du district in Kunming, YunnanDu district in Kunming, Yunnan
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Police station near wherePolice station near where KieraKiera waswas
foundfound
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The problem: ChineseThe problem: Chinesecommunism and the onecommunism and the one--
child policychild policy
Mao Zedong and the rise of Communism
Current laws
Cultural effects
Why we as pro-lifers should be concerned
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Mao Zedong: a VERYMao Zedong: a VERY
brief overviewbrief overview Chinese Communist revolutionary, leader of thePeoples Liberation Army
Land reform/Campaign to Suppress
Counterrevolutionaries Mao claims that a total of 700,00 were executed
from 1949-1953, however, because executionquotas were often exceeded, the number is closer
to 2 million to 5 million
Further, at least 1.5 million but possibly as many as 4to 6 million were sent to reform through laborcamps, where many died
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ThreeThree--anti/Fiveanti/Five--antianti
campaignscampaigns Campaigns to rid capitalist influences and politicalopponents to Mao in urban areaso Used raw terror
Q
uote from Mao: A Life Driving enemies to suicide was a common tactic
under Maos reign
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The Great Leap ForwardThe Great Leap Forward A five year plan to transform the Chinese economyfrom a largely agricultural economy to an industrialone through a process of mandatory agricultural
collectivization Historian Frank Dikotter asserts that coercion, terror,
and systematic violence were the very foundationof the Great Leap Forward and it motivated one
of the most deadly mass killings in human history
Death toll: 18 million to 32.5 million, Dikotterestimates that the number is at least 42 million
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PropagandaPropaganda
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Chinas OneChinas One--Child PolicyChild Policy The Communist Party of China (CPC)s support ofthe policy comes from Maos support for Marxisttheory of population growth
Short and sweet of it: you may have only one child,and will incur a crippling fine (or worse) if you havemore than one.
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Heres the thing, though:Heres the thing, though: This reinforces Chinas favoritism towards boysbecause:o They will carry on the family name
o They will stay at home and work for the family, whereas if you had a girl,
she will marry off and leave home, which would mean no one will bethere to take care of the parents if theyre only allowed one child
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ConsequencesConsequences Gender imbalanceo Sex ratio at birth in mainland China was 117:100 (males/females) in 2000o The natural sex ratio is about 105:100, the world population ratio is 101:100
o There are 32 milllion more men than women in Chinao This shortage of girls leads to sex trafficing
Sex-selective abortion (though technically illegal) Four-Two-One problem
little emperors Infanticide
Child abandonment
Forced sterilization and abortion Ye Tingfang, a professor at the Chinese Academy ofSocial Science, says: [The One-Child Policy] violatesnatures law, and, in the long run, will lead to mothernatures revenge.
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Abortion in ChinaAbortion in China 13 million abortions in China a year compared to 20million births, but researchers believe the realnumber of abortions is higher because of so many
abortions at unregistered clinicso 35,000 abortions per day, compared to 3,000-4,000 in America
Sex-selected abortion is illegal, yet possible
Forced abortion is not a thing of the past; it is
happening today and is widespread
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New Evidence ofNew Evidence of
CoercionCoercion https://docs.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/viewer?a=v&pid=gmail&attid=0.1&thid=1358e81b797ded6d&mt=application/pdf&url=https://mail.google.com/mail/
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Womens Rights WithoutWomens Rights Without
Frontiers videoFrontiers video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjtuBcJUsjY&feature=player_embedded
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But couldnt Hepatitis B be responsibleBut couldnt Hepatitis B be responsible
for the high male/female ratio?for the high male/female ratio? In Emily Osters PhD dissertation at Harvard, Oster argued
that the high prevalence of Hepatitis B in Asia skewed
the gender ratio because regions with high Hepatitis B
infections tended to have high male/female birth ratios
for biological reasons not yet understood (butextensively documented)
Further research has found that this skewness was only
found around later born children, and if Hep B wasresponsible for the skewness, it would be expected
amoung all children, regardless of birth order
This suggests that other factors at play when it comes to
the gender imbalance that Hepatitis B cannot explain
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But doesnt China need the OneBut doesnt China need the One--ChildChild
policy to fix its population problem?policy to fix its population problem? Not really
[T]he policy itself is probably only partially
responsible for the reduction in the total fertility rate.The most dramatic decrease in the rate actuallyoccurred before the policy was imposedIt is
reasonable to speculate that there would havebeen a further decline in China's total fertility rate
had the voluntary policy of the 1970s continued.
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Even for the sake ofEven for the sake of
argumentargument What if Chinas One-Child policy worked? Government officials said the policy was a great
success, preventing at least 250 million births since
1980. At what cost???
Half the Sky
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Communism isnt SOCommunism isnt SO
badbad Tell that to the millions of women, children, andfamilies hurt by Chinas oppressive policies
Tell that to Kieras biological parents, or any parent
in China that had to give up their children underpressure to the government
Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association
The people of China are the victims of theirgovernment
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The point isThe point is The amount of bloodshed that has happened inChina at the hands of communism is breathtakingand unfathomable
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DiscussionDiscussion What can we, as Americans, do about the terribleinjustices of the Chinese government?o UN Population Fund
What would be acceptable, humane, and pro-life
alternatives to the One-Child Policy? Do we evenneed an alternative?
Check out my parents blog of when they were inChina to adopt Kiera,http://ourlittleflower.blogspot.com/
(to start at the beginning, go to December 2006 inthe archives. To read about the area that Kiera wasfound in, click A Humble Beginning in previousposts)