China's War on Children: Another Forced Abortion in China Draws Media Attention

By Deacon Keith Fournier
7/11/2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

China's One Child Policy demands our outrage! We call upon the Obama Administration to take a strong and public position decrying this horrid abuse of human rights. Of course, it is increasingly hard to take the moral high ground when the same Obama Administration continues its own governmental policy of defending the killing of children in the womb, at any time and for any reason, in our own country - calling it a "reproductive right" and seeking to fund it under the Affordable Care Act.

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WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - In June of this year, Jennifer Hartline of Catholic Online wrote a hard hitting article entitled Sex-Selection Abortion and China's Brutality: Shall We 'Gulp and Get Over It'? It commented upon the horrid forcible abortion of 23-yr-old pregnant mother Feng Jianmei of China. The brutal act finally drew the outrage of the International Press after a photo of the mother with her dead child next to her was published throughout the West over social media.

A courageous Chinese human rights named Chen Guangcheng recently moved into Greenwich Village in New York after a long and brutal ordeal which also drew international coverage. The Chinese regime reluctantly consented to him leaving the country after the coverage could not be stopped and threatened their public relations charade. Chen is the 40 year old Chinese citizen who taught himself the law and, as a human rights lawyer, courageously stood up against the evil, inhumane and barbaric forced abortion and sterilization policies of the nation he loves, the Peoples Republic of China.

In addition to the Chinese Communist regime's crimes against humanity, such as forced abortion and sterilization, they persecute Christians and other religious believers - with a special hatred directed against the Catholic Church. I regularly write about the persecution of faithful Catholics by the Communist Regime ruling mainland China. They have established a "Patriotic" Church which engages in illicit ordinations and persecutes Catholics loyal to Rome.

Sadly, because the Maoist Atheists ruling mainland China wear business suits, smile a lot, and hold commercial paper which represents a substantial amount of American I.O.U.'s, few politicians in either major political party have the courage to call them out for their egregious human rights abuses. With our growing economic reliance and dependence upon the Regime in China we sacrifice our fundamental obligation to defend fundamental human rights because we depend on the economic assistance of a repressive regime.

I will never forget the visit of Vice President Joe Biden to China in August of 2011. This Vice president who claims to be a practicing Catholic and presents himself as a champion of those who have no voice failed to oppose the brutality of forced abortions and sterilization. He remained silent before a brutal regime which subjects parents who have more than one child to fines, human rights abuses, beatings and imprisonment. He said during that visit that he would not "second guess" the murderous policy.

Congressman Chris Smith, a human rights hero and faithful Catholic made this statement in Congressional testimony in 2011, "Since 1979, brothers and sisters have been illegal in China as part of the barbaric one child per couple policy. And for 30 years, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has vigorously supported, funded, defended, promoted and even celebrated these massive crimes against humanity."

"The uncontested facts are these: Any Chinese, Tibetan, or Uyghur mother without a birth permit is put under coercive pressure to abort - if need be, she is physically forced to do so. All unwed moms are compelled to abort. In what can only be described as a search-and-destroy mission, disabled children are aborted as part of a nationwide eugenics program."

On Monday, July 9, 2012, Wang Zhicheng of Asia News, reported on another brutal incident involving forced abortion in an article entitled, Fujian, forced to abort by injection in seventh month. Family denounces Government. According to the report, the World Health Organization now estimates that 14 million forced abortions take place each year in China which are related to the one-child law, 25% of all abortions in the world.

"Pan Chunyan, 30, of Daji (Fujian) was pregnant with a baby of seven months. With her husband Wu Liangjie they already have two children: an 8 year old girl and a boy of three. Last March, a group of men of the Office for population control, traveled to Shishi (120 km from Daji), where Wu was working to threaten him with having violated the one-child law: or pay 45,300 Yuan ( about 5800 Euros) in fines or his wife was to undergo a forced abortion".

"Returning to the village, Wu paid 20 thousand Yuan. But a month after the funds were returned, and his wife was kidnapped and locked in a room with other pregnant women. At that point, the local government asked him to pay a fine of 55 thousand Yuan (more than 7 thousand Euros). Despite having paid two days later, more than 60 people with different cars, arrived at his house, seize his wife and took her to ...

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Dr.Dennis P. Flores
10 months ago
The Historical Background of Our Lady of Covadonga, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary of La Trinidad and the Cordilleras-(Nuestra Senora de Covadonga Reina Del Rosario Santissimo de La Trinidad y Las Cordilleras)
Everyday, more and more devotees and pilgrims from all over the country and elsewhere, flock to San Jose Parish Church in Poblacion, La Trinidad, Benguet to view, Venerate and pray for intercessions, miracles and blessings to the majestic and miraculous centuries-old brown Image of Our Lady of Covadonga which is temporarily encased in a glass box while awaiting Her final Shrine at the completion of the on-going construction of the new Parish Church. The Brown Statue has its origins in La Trinidad so vaguely handed down by word of mouth of local townsfolk, but the original devotion began in Asturias, Spain in the 7th century AD by a Christian King named Don Pelayo who led the Christian soldiers in victory in a battle against the invading Moors. A statue of The Blessed Mother was kept by Pelayo in the caves of Covadonga in Asturias. The victory of the Christians was attributed to Her intercession and protection and a shrine was built in the cave which, to this day is still being venerated. During the Spanish conquest of the east in the 1500's, the Galleon Trade was established between the Philippines and Spain that started the Spanish colonization of the Philippine islands. It became a common practice that each Galleon that sailed to the east carried an Image of the Blessed Mother carved in hard wood fashioned after the medieval queens of the time. This was a part of the Christianization effort of Spain. Each image was brought into land and a church or fortress was built in Her name. Because of the vast trade and commerce all around the Philippine islands, there came to be many Shrines of Our Blessed Mother scattered around the archipelago. Some of the popular ones are Our Lady of La Naval in Manila, Our Lady of Manaoag in Pangasinan, Our Lady of Penafrancia in Naga, Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage in Antipolo, Our Lady of De Guia in Malate, Our Lady of Piat in Cagayan Valley and Our Lady Of Covadonga in La Trinidad, Benguet. It is believed that the Image of Our Lady of Covadonga carried by a Galleon that docked on the ports of La Union, was brought up to the mountains of the Cordilleras by Spanish conquistadores who aimed to colonize and Christianize the mountainous regions of Northern Philippines, the Cordilleras. It was told that they carried the Image by foot and ascended through the mountainous paths on the boundaries of La Union and Benguet, into a beautiful flat valley surrounded by mountains. They named the place La Trinidad and built a stone chapel to house the Image and start Her devotion. This is clear evidence that the Spaniards landed here, as La Trinidad valley is the only Spanish named town in the entire province of Benguet. They founded the Parish of San Jose here but, unfortunately, due to the pagan population, the devotion to Our Lady did not prosper. With the gentle migration of lowlanders into La Trinidad, mostly from the neighboring Ilocos Region very few people knew of Her presence in this town. The natives were strong in their culture and pagan beliefs while the Ilocano migrants wee the first Roman Catholics to thrive in the areas. The Roman Catholic faith gradually flourished in the town of La Trinidad. The stone church burned down due to unknown reasons in the 18th century but the Image was saved by the religious townsfolk who painstakingly built a Wooden Church in the turn of the century. This wooden church stood as the earliest center for the Catholic faith in La Trinidad with mostly local Ilocano migrants as parishioners with some natives gradually embracing the faith. This Church was burned again after the Second world war in 1948 including all records and historical data about the Parish and the Image Itself. The centuries-old Image was saved once more and was kept in one of the homes in Poblacion, the Sales Family home. In the 1950's a small wooden chapel was built on the same site and the Image was placed on the right side altar but was left unknown for many years without a name nor adornments or vestments. In 1979, a new replica of Our Lady of Covadonga was donated from Spain to the San Jose Parish Church by devoted Asturians led by the Cacho family. This replica was received by then Parish priest Rev. fr. Camilo Declercq with the Most Rev. Bishop William Brasseur, Vicar Apostolic to Benguet and the Mountain Provinces, in attendance. The Centuries-Old Statue was then removed from the right side altar to give way to the replica, and was then transferred to a smaller Chapel of the Sacred Heart in the same town only to be left in utter neglect and forgotten. The new Cacho replica was enshrined here and it started the awareness of the name Our Lady of Covadonga in the town of La Trinidad, the City of Baguio and neighboring provinces. The Mandated Society named Children of Our Lady of Covadonga (COLC) was organized by local women devotees in the Parish who took the initiative and persuation to spread Her devotion and be the curators of the replica. The old Image in Sacred heart Chapel was almost forgotten when In 1999, a massive research was spearheaded by Rev. Fr. Rolando Astudillo, the Parish Priest of San Jose Church together with members of the COLC, and it was discovered that there was an age-old Icon of Our Lady of Covadonga stored somewhere in the town. The COLC and other Concerned devotees searched and found the Age-Old Image in sheer deterioration in the Sacred Heart Chapel. They reclaimed and painstakingly restored the Image to perfection in September 1999. The new Cacho replica was then removed and transferred to the Sacred Heart Chapel in km.5 while the old original image was brought back. A holy procession was done on December 8,1999 headed by then Bishop Ernesto Salgado, Vicar Apostolic to the Mountain Provinces, and the Original Image of Our Lady was temporarily enshrined in a glass encasement at the right side entrance to the wooden San Jose Parish Church. Her Cannonical Coronation and Declaration as a National Marian Shrine was held with a concelebrated High Mass on Her feastday, September 8, 2005 by His Excellency Msgr. Carlito Cenzon, Bishop of the Diocese of Baguio and Benguet. Her title was then proclaimed: "Nuestra Senora de Covadonga Reina del Rosario Santissimo de La Trinidad y de las Cordilleras". She now awaits Her final Shrine as the New Parish Church is under construction and may hopefully qualify as Basilica Minore, given the proper appointment from the Vatican. Our Lady of Covadonga Queen of the Most holy Rosary of La Trinidad and the Cordilleras, Pray for us and Protect the Philippines!
Robert
10 months ago
Welcome to the future of America under Obama.
ManassasGrandma
10 months ago
God help these poor Chinese mothers. I will continue to try and buy ameircan or at least not chinese, but it's a struggle.
Julius A
10 months ago
we hate the greedy imperalist Chinese government In the eye of the asian countries and in the world China is bullying other small nation like vietnam phillpines, tibet mongolia etc.The president of china is an agent of Satan

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