Shandong
Province, Zibo City, October 24, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– The first week of October should be the happiest time for Chinese citizens, a
celebratory holiday marking the anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic
of China. But for Qiao Ping’an and his wife Song, the week was marred by
an injustice that led to a double tragedy—a mental breakdown and a death.
According
to several reports on Chinese language news sites, which were picked up by the
human rights organization All
Girls Allowed, on October 2, Song was alone in her home in Zibo City
(Gaoqing County, Heilizhai Town, Qiaojia Village) while her family was out in
the field bringing in the fall harvest. A mother of two girls and nearly
6-months pregnant with their third child, Song had no reason to believe that
she was in any danger. After all, she had heard nothing from the Family
Planning Police about her pregnancy, and it was a national holiday, when no
government officials would be working. Yet, at 5 pm, seven Family
Planning officials reportedly arrived at her home, took her by force into a
vehicle and drove her 100 kilometers away to Dongying Universal Love Women’s
Hospital.
According
to the reports, at the hospital, the officials violently tied Song down,
confiscated her cell phone and stripped all of her clothes off. Because
she was so resistant, they forcibly injected her with a sedative, then pressed
her finger to sign the voluntary abortion consent form. They forcibly
injected a needle into her womb with a poison to kill the baby and to induce
labor. After this, they left her naked on the hospital bed and locked her
in.
Song’s
family was not notified of her whereabouts, and so only arrived at 11 pm. after
it was too late. While they sought justice at the local police station,
they were forced to return to their home while Song remained at the hospital.
On
the evening of October 5th, Song gave birth to a dead baby. However, the
loss of the baby was not all—Song herself reportedly suffered a mental
breakdown from the trauma of her experience. As a result, she is in a
trance-like state of shock and cannot take care of herself. Her
seven-year-old daughter cries every day, asking what has happened to her
mother. Family Planning officials continue to monitor Song and her family
around the clock. There has been no official public apology and no
compensation; instead, it has been reported that the Heilizhai Town Family
Planning officials immediately sought aid from more senior officials in Gaoqing
County to cover up the story.
This
violent forced abortion is the first to surface in China after the National
Family Planning Committee ordered officials on July 19th to “absolutely stop
late-term abortions” and to “guide people to do family planning
voluntarily”. Since then, 23 of China’s 31 provinces (representing 87.52%
of China’s population) have also banned late-term abortions on their official
Family Planning websites, including Shandong Province. Chen Guangcheng,
the courageous blind forced abortion activist who made headlines when he
escaped house arrest in May, lived in the same province of Shandong.
All
Girls Allowed, which works to oppose China’s one-child policy, condemned
the forced abortion and called for immediate accountability and justice for
Song and her family.
“These
horrific acts of violence against innocents must come to the light and the
Chinese government must honor its word when it resolutely calls for a ban on
late-term forced abortions,” said Brian Lee, Executive of All Girls Allowed, in
a press release. “As the scriptures say, ‘The LORD is slow to anger, abounding
in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty
unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the fathers to the third
and fourth generations.’ (Numbers 14:18) Join us as we pray for Jesus to
stretch out his arms—one arm of love and healing to Song and her family, the
other arm of wrath and justice against the perpetrators.”
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