China trying to force 6-month pregnant woman to abort

[Toastedturningtidelegs]

I thought the dummies loved late term abortion?...As well as Communist China?

babylonsister  (1000+ posts)         Fri Nov-14-08 09:12 AM
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China trying to force 6-month pregnant woman to abort
 China trying to force 6-month pregnant woman to abort
By Tim Johnson | McClatchy Newspapers


BEIJING _ A Muslim Uighur woman who is more than six months pregnant remained under watch in a hospital in China’s far northwest Friday awaiting a forced abortion by authorities who don't want her to have a third child.

A nurse tending to the woman at the maternity ward of a hospital in Yining, near China’s border with Kazakhstan, said physicians had delayed performing the abortion because of international queries about her case.

China maintains a one-child-per-family rule on majority Han Chinese, with more flexible rules for ethnic minorities, to contain its massive population of 1.3 billion citizens.

Those who violate the rule must pay large fines, although reports of zealous officials ordering forced abortions in rural and semi-rural areas are fairly common.

The case of Arzigul Tursun is raising attention because she is 26 weeks pregnant and supporters say an abortion could threaten her health. Her husband, who goes by the single name Nurmemet, said officials in their village near Yining learned of the pregnancy and warned the couple their house and property would be seized if Arzigul did not undergo an abortion.

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/55894.html

 

Disgusting! The Dummies respond..

Ellen Forradalom  (1000+ posts)        Fri Nov-14-08 09:14 AM
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2. This is all kinds of wrong
 A complete and utter violation of fundamental human rights. 

I'm not even gonna point out the irony here! http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4460126

[Toastedturningtidelegs]

cobalt1999  (1000+ posts)       Fri Nov-14-08 09:24 AM
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7. I'm all for population control, but like any good idea taken too far...
 Abusive.

 

JESUS! And they call us Nazis?

[franksolich]

Oh my.

There go the primitives again.

I think it all started about this same time last year, when Ms. Ed the unappellated eohippus, condemned Chinese-made toys sold at Wal-Mart and other discount outlets.

Since then, it's been an avalanche of criticism, the primitives on Skins's island condeming the socialist paradise of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all.

The primitives have got to pick up their little Red Books and study them for illumination on the leftist thoughts about China; that it's not kosher to criticize a socialist paradise of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all.

[Tantal]

I'm not even gonna point out the irony here!

I think the poster was referring to the human rights of the mother. We already know how concerned they are for unborn children.

[DumbAss Tanker]

In all fairness, it is not hypocritical at all for most of them who might condemn this to do so.  The vast majority of Pro-Choice advocates (omitting the small percentage of pseudo-Nazi population control freaks and closet eugenicists) would be just as firmly set against forced abortion as they would be for prohibiting abortion.  In both cases, as they would see it, the State would be taking the right to choose the outcome of the pregnancy away from the individual.  The ideological opposition of Pro-Choice and Pro-Life are not simply mirror opposites of each other, both schools value individual liberty, but they proceed from different assumptions about the beginning of human life.   

[Toastedturningtidelegs]

I think the poster was referring to the human rights of the mother. We already know how concerned they are for unborn children.

Yes that was my point! The mother is a "human" the unborn child is not according to them!

[Toastedturningtidelegs]

In all fairness, it is not hypocritical at all for most of them who might condemn this to do so.  The vast majority of Pro-Choice advocates (omitting the small percentage of pseudo-Nazi population control freaks and closet eugenicists) would be just as firmly set against forced abortion as they would be for prohibiting abortion.  In both cases, as they would see it, the State would be taking the right to choose the outcome of the pregnancy away from the individual.  The ideological opposition of Pro-Choice and Pro-Life are not simply mirror opposites of each other, both schools value individual liberty, but they proceed from different assumptions about the beginning of human life.   

My point was that they put their "choice" above the fact that an un born child is being murdered!
They have no problem justifying killing a 6 month fetus as long as they are the ones making that "choice" Once again it's all about "their rights"

[DumbAss Tanker]

My point was that they put their "choice" above the fact that an un born child is being murdered!
They have no problem justifying killing a 6 month fetus as long as they are the ones making that "choice" Once again it's all about "their rights"

I'm jsut sayin', you may think they're fiends in human form, but they aren't actually hypocirites unless they agree with you about the fetus being a human being, which they don't.