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Originally posted by My.mind.is.mine
reply to post by Deon
i'm not really understanding your point.. gruesome photo + political statement = ???
Vice President Joe Biden traveled all the way to China on a goodwill mission, and ended up getting into a fight with abortion foes back home for sympathizing with the communist country’s one-child policy. The blowback prompted the vice president to retract his comments.
Concerned Women for America said, "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,” NPR’s It’s All Politics blog reported.
Biden’s comments came in response to a question about China’s holding $1 trillion in U.S. debt. The vice president, perhaps seeking common ground, explained that the United States and China share a problem in that there are fewer workers to support an aging population.
“But as I was talking to some of your leaders, you share a similar concern here in China. You have no safety net. Your policy has been one which I fully understand — I'm not second-guessing — of one child per family,” he said. “The result being that you're in a position where one wage earner will be taking care of four retired people. Not sustainable.”
the real sicking part is, this not only is it done with no thought but as the article says;
On the garbage dumps that surround Beijing, scavengers from time to time will find a newborn baby girl amid the stinking refuge.
Sometimes she is still alive.
lots of people got long term police surveillance for trying to protect people from Birth Control agency, or trying to talk to foreign media.
Originally posted by silo13
Without proof of some kind your whole thread = hate mongering and shock-schlock.
Either give some proof or get off.
Oh and by the way? The ONLY difference between those babies and the ones that are aborted in the USA?
Companies in the USA BUY aborted babies to use their tissue in research to make foods/drink like Pepsi taste better.
Pepsi Uses Aborted Fetal Cells in the research and development of artificial flavor enhancers.
Now tell me who are the barbarians!
peaceedit on 20-10-2011 by silo13 because: bbc
Maybe I didn't make it clear: Women were forced for abortion by government agency. It is not one's choice whether one likes girl or not. If one is going to have a second child, the fetus must immediately be aborted, or lots of terrible things would happen to the family, especially in the rural areas.
Originally posted by Aestheteka
Could you put a link so we can verify just what the picture is supposed to represent?
A photo can be portrayed in many different ways.
On another note, this also happens in India (girl babies are buried alive) and it also happened in Western history among some of the greatest cultures, the Spartans being the most famous for it.
I know I said it the other day concerning the toddler but metinks someone really wants us to hate the Chinese at an unconscious level.
These dead baby and toddler images remind me of the old anti-German, sorry, anti-Nazi, sorry, anti-Hun (which ones are the good guys now and which ones are the bad? They keep changing their mind every couple of decades...) propaganda. Remember that we have become much more desensitized to violent and horrific imagery than back then -
well, I found this article in several websites with link redirecting to the same dead cnn address:
Originally posted by GringoViejo
reply to post by Deon
No, I never said that. Mostly because you didn't post pictures of children being taken away for "some birth control crap," you posted obscene pictures of dead infants.
We usually get your run of the mill dead babies in america, drowning, shaking, etc. We're just better at editing our press.
Originally posted by AlexIR
I just love you ignorants ... stop trying to dismiss the picture just because you don't want to accept the truth.
Go on liveleak and look at all the gruesome acts asians commit ... (not all of them are bad i am not generalizing).. they are slowly loosing their humanity...
Originally posted by Deon
I've heard enough of such news, not trying to convince anyone, just found it hard to swallow. Besides, making it known does bring it a change.
I do agree with your point to some extent-let them worry themselves or let them rot to death. In either way, it doesn't happen to me, I shouldn't give a dime about it. If Chinese people can tolerate their sufferings, it means the sufferings are nothing to them.
Originally posted by GringoViejo
Originally posted by Deon
I've heard enough of such news, not trying to convince anyone, just found it hard to swallow. Besides, making it known does bring it a change.
Obviously, by now you should be realizing that most of us are aware of what China does. I would say about 95% of ATS has at least a cursory knowledge of China and it's policies.
So, please, tell me how making the actions of a sovereign country (one that we America won't invade. Ever.) known has helped in stopping these problems?
I'm glad you've heard enough of such news, now you can worry about helping your fellow citizens fix Singapore. You know, that place where you have a say?
Ultimately this falls on the citizens of China. If they want it stopped, they have to stop it. And if they're not worried about it, neither am I. I have my own country to worry about.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) approved a resolution on Monday condemning the practice of prenatal sex selection before encouraging the work of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) – known for funding China’s coercive one child policy.
The PACE resolution specifically targeted the nations of Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, where the skewed sex ratios have “reached worrying proportions.” Authorities in these countries were called to investigate the “causes and reasons” behind the skewed sex ratios.
“Whereas the natural sex ratio averages 105 boys to 100 girls, the figure in Albania, Armenia and Azerbaijan is 112 boys to 100 girls, while in Georgia it is 111 boys to 100 girls,” according to PACE.
The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee approved legislation on Wednesday to eliminate $50 million in funding for the UNFPA requested by President Obama.