Woman Forced to Abort Fetus at Seven Months
By Feng Changle | The Epoch Times
June 22, 2006
Local family planning office carries out compulsory abortion on woman who lacked government permit to have a child
A 25-year-old unmarried woman was seven months pregnant when staff members from the local government family planning office forcibly took her to a clinic to give her an abortion.
Wang Liping lives in a suburb of Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. She became pregnant in November 2004. Because her boyfriend could not afford a wedding, they did not get married right away. She is the oldest sibling in her family, and her parents were excited about having grandchildren. Without a marriage certificate, however, she could not receive a government permit to give birth.
At about 6 p.m. on May 31, 2005, Wang was stopped on the street by a group of people who identified themselves as staff members from the township family planning office. They forced her into their car and took her in turn to the town clinic, an air force hospital, and Tangli Clinic. All three institutions refused to abort her fetus. At about 11 p.m., they took her to Laoyachen Clinic.
Without her consent or any pre-operation tests, the staff from the family planning office and several doctors and nurses held her arms and pushed her to the ground. She screamed for help. They also beat her, stripped off her pants, and injected a syringe of drugs into her abdominal area. She was then taken to a patient room and tied to the bed.
Wang Liping said, "I was both shocked and scared, and lost all strength to fight back. My calls for help were unanswered. I could not believe such a brutal, horrid thing was happening to me."
She said that at about 3 a.m. on June 2, after violent pains, the infant was born. The infant cried for a few minutes and then became silent and motionless. At that time, no hospital staff was around to help her. Deeply fearful, she shouted for a while before a yawning nurse appeared.
The nurse asked, "What are you shouting about?"
The Laoyachen Clinic staff. (Photo provided by Wang Liping)Wang said, "Could you check on my baby?" The nurse walked over to the bed, looked at the baby, and said, "The baby is already dead." She then tossed the body aside.
Wang was so shocked by the news that she fainted. When she woke up in the morning, a doctor was standing by her bed and asked her to pay a fee to handle the baby's remains.
When Wang said that she had no money, the doctor put the body in a plastic bag, put it on her bed and said, "If you have no money, it's easy, just take the body and handle it yourself."
Wang was allowed to contact her family only after the baby had died. When her boyfriend and relatives went to the family planning office requesting to see the regulations that authorized such a late-term abortion, the staff ousted them out of the government offices. Meanwhile, Laoyachen Clinic sent them a bill again, asking them to pay a fee for "family planning."
Wang said, "The doctors and nurses have no sense of humanity or medical ethics. The staff at the family planning office has no conscience or understanding of basic legal concepts. I am almost at the point of a nervous breakdown. Where are our most fundamental human rights? Modern China is the only country in history that requires a government permit to have a child. How many families have suffered because of the family planning policy?"
Anguished, she said, "Since people are eating people now [see note below], I really want to kill these men-eating beasts with my own teeth!"
Note: According to articles circulating on some Chinese web sites, some restaurants cook aborted fetuses and sell them as a tonic.
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The Epoch Times, isn't that Falun Gong related ? I would seriously question the content of this story. This ladies last comments 'How many families have suffered because of the family planning policy?' sound just slightly political and un-natural for a Chinese person who has suffered in this way.
I am not a sympathiser for CCP or Falun Gong, but I advise readers to read with a critical eye and to understand the role of propaganda in Chinese society regardless of whether it is on the side of 'good' or 'bad'.
Bobby Fletcher, do you understand the serious allegations put forth in the Kilgour-Matas report on organ harvesting targeting Falun Gong practitioners across China. ( http://investigation.go.saveinter.net ) The Chinese embassy has formulated a set of contradictions http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-8-10/44796.html which is much shorter than yours. Most of it is unfounded and a direct attack on the authors of the report and the Falun Gong. China doesn’t provide any answers to these crimes. In fact the free world is still waiting for China to explain the 41,500 organ transplants unaccounted for (in the report). That is telling. Have the many Falun Gong practitioners who have disappeared in China become unwilling organ donors? Is that the explanation?
I find it unfortunate that Mr. Harry Wu's http://www.faluninfo.net/displayAnArticle.asp?ID=9452 investigation in the North of China proved to be fruitless and that in turn his report is being used to discredit the Kilgour-Matas findings. Maybe his team should have gone there before March 9 when the story first broke in the Epoch Times. News reports confirm that after March 9th, the hospital site was cleaned up swiftly to hide all evidence. The army relocated the unwilling donors quickly overnight. Only 3 weeks later on did the Communist Party officials invite the free world to come and investigate. But oddly enough the regime has refused to grant visas to anyone who asked to investigate further. Meanwhile the US State Dept. was taken through a show tour--the regime being with them every step of the way but they (US) have kept the file opened and are still interested in the case.
http://www.faluninfo.net/displayAnArticle.asp?ID=9452
It's worth mentioning that the Kilgour-Matas investigation team examined 18 pieces of evidence to draw their conclusions and that the hospital visited by the US State Dept. and Mr. Wu only accounts for a small portion of the report. Many hospitals were investigated, not just that one--so 99% of the report is not about that hospital. Moreover hospital staff openly admitted to the organ source being from the Falun Gong in 15 instances and these digital recordings have been well validated. Matas calls this practice a new from of evil on the planet. BTW the phone bills are available. China's bloody harvest
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=6a97d044-615a-496b-b7d6-e79e36636592
The K-M report has been well received in their travels to Brusels, Berlin, London, Washington DC with the Australian government is probing into the crimes Rudd said http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-8-23/45203.html Kilgour has met with rights organizations which are already paying close attention to this issue as is the UN. Meanwhile the K-M report is backed up by Dr. Allison’s report http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-8-7/44668.html , including Edward McMillan Scott’s visit http://clearharmony.net/articles/200606/33776.html to China confirming heaps of evidence that amounts to genocide.
It is high time that Communist China be made accountable for their crimes against humanity and for the free world to reassess their take on China. As I recall China was given the 2008 Olympics on the premise that their human rights record would improve. In my eyes the well documented persecution of Falun Gong is enough to disqualify them instantly along with the reports of large scale organ harvesting which would make their record stoop to a new low.
It’s time to quit the Party Bob! http://ninecommentaries.com