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A survivor of China's forced-abortion policy is warning Americans they share the responsibility for that nation's holocaust of government-mandated death through their consumerism.
The testimony comes from Shiu Yon Zhou, whose ordeal in which she lost the child who would have been her first-born has been played before Congress, on national television and in the media.
But she spoke to WND today in light of the 2008 Olympics which are scheduled in Beijing and to counter statements being released by the Chinese government that the human rights situation, long deplored as one of the worst on record, is improving.
Her story was revealed to WND in sometimes-halting English, as she still works to grasp the idiomatics of the language she now teaches to her three children, ages 6, 4, and 2, at home.
There have been no significant changes in China's human rights, she said, since that day in 1993 when her neighbor reported to police that she appeared to be pregnant without authorization, and police officers broke down the door of her family's home to take her in shackles to a hospital where she was given a "pill" and locked up.
After all, she was 18, in a "marriage" arranged by her grandmother, and pregnant even though the law said that couldn't happen until she was 23, she told WND.
Before a physician could come to make sure the baby was dead, she said, her father bribed a nurse to look the other way and she jumped from a second-story window, then fled with some family members to escape China on a fishing boat with dozens of other women in similar condition. There were men, too, since those whose wives were found guilty in such cases often lost their jobs and homes as penalty.
Weeks aboard the boat ended when U.S. authorities found the drifting vessel off the coast of Mexico and ordered it returned to China. She escaped that fate only because she was very sick, thought she still might be pregnant and was hospitalized in San Francisco.
The baby was lost, however, and she found herself in detention in Elmwood Detention Facility in Milpitas, Calif., without a legal status in the United States. She was freed from that five years later only when a pro-life Christian activist adopted her to give her her much-sought freedom.
That same year she testified along with human rights activist Harry Wu before the House Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights on the atrocities of forced abortion in China. Also testifying was Gao Xiao Duan, who had just defected and told of her work heading a "planned-birth" office where she ordered thousands of sterilizations and abortions on unwilling women.
That year was when President Clinton also traveled to China with the express intent of confronting the Chinese about forced abortions.
So have things improved? "No," she told WND. She knows because she still remains in touch with her brother and parents, who remained in China but were evicted from their home, fired from their jobs and forced to flee their hometown because of her pregnancy.
Her parents now live in another location in China under assumed names, and Shiu Yon Zhou conceals her residency in the United States because of concerns over retaliation for her outspoken condemnation of forced abortion and China's hand in it.
But how are U.S. residents a part? Because, she told WND, the exploding consumer goods market for Chinese-made products puts pressure on Chinese manufacturers to increase production; they put pressure on workers to put in long hours at the plants, and there's no room in the equation for child-bearing. The result? Forced abortions.
Most Favored Nation trading status for China gives the nation an official U.S. endorsement of its internal actions, and the lust for money has, if anything, increased the demand for such policies, she said.
Millions of American dollars funneled through United Nations programs to China simply pay the expenses, she said.
WND has reported on the plans for megaships to move millions of tons of consumer goods across the Pacific to be delivered to the United States and its neighbors. The economic boom China is experiencing because of the purchase of consumer goods speaks for itself.
She was accompanied to her interview with WND by two prominent pro-life activists in the Rocky Mountain region, Jo Scott, whose witnessing outside of Denver abortion clinics has saved babies lives, and pastor and radio broadcast Bob Enyart.
They are friends because Shiu Yon Zhou met her current husband at one of Enyart's pro-life seminars. She was in the Rocky Mountain region for her speech to a banquet held by Lifecommercials.com, a company that specializes in dynamic pro-life commercials.
One features simultaneous videos: On one side during the course of the 60 seconds, a little boy talks about what sports he wants to play, what subjects he'd like to study, how he'd like to "work on cars" with his dad … "unless..."
The other side shows a woman, from the knees down, getting out of a car, walking up a sidewalk and ultimately entering an abortion clinic.
A counter clicks over from 50,000,000 to 50,000,001.
"Today, much of American culture undermines time-honored values and promotes the sacrifice of unborn children for the convenience of uninformed persons who fail to realize abortion's significant long-term destructive effects," the company says. "Since the Roe vs. Wade decision in 1973, abortion on demand has taken over 50 million American lives, while scarring millions more – including mothers and fathers harmed by the nightmare of abortion – in part because they did not have the facts," the company said.
"[Our] prayers [are] that with the world focused on China prior to the Olympics, these horrific human rights abuses will be exposed and American free traders put to shame for how they have turned a blind eye to the human suffering for the almighty dollar," said Leslie Hanks, vice president of Colorado Right to Life.
WND previously has reported on China's forced abortion horror.
According to information from China Aid Association, during one day in 2007 officials at the Youjiang District People's Hospital of Baise City performed forced abortions on 41 women, with another 20 victimized the next day.
China Aid, which has its U.S. offices in Midland, Texas, said eyewitnesses confirmed the actions by government "Family Planning" authorities.
"Within 30 minutes, about 10 of them were injected forcefully for an abortion. This means within [the] last 24 hours, at least 61 babies were killed by forced abortions," the sources within China told CAA.
"At bed Number 37, Ms. He Caigan was nine months pregnant. Officials injected her baby's head and 20 minutes later, her baby stopped moving and died," the sources confirmed.
Many of those targeted in the killing rampage were Christians, CAA said.
"About 6 a.m. on [Wednesday], Pastor James Liang's wife Ms. Wei Linrong gave birth to a boy, but he was dead because of the injection. She received three injections – one is to induce the birth and the other two to kill the baby in the womb," CAA's sources reported.
First exposed by WND in 1997, what has come to be known as "gendercide" in China – due to a cultural preference for boys – has resulted in the deaths of at least 50 million girls.
WND also has reported on other human rights atrocities, including those documented by two Canadian researchers who looked into allegations that China "harvests" organs from prison inmates to be sold to transplant patients and found many of the claims substantiated.
The report called "Bloody Harvest" documents China's "anything goes" transplant industry where a cornea is available to anyone with $30,000 and people are kept as prisoners until their organs are needed, when they are executed by a doctor's needle just as soon as the cash hits the hospital accounting office, according to David Matas, an international human rights lawyer, and David Kilgour, the former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific.
The report documented a question to one hospital official about organs available for transplant. "…And it was from healthy Falun Gong practitioners…?"
"Correct. We would choose the good ones because we assure the quality in our operation," the hospital official said.
"That means you choose the organs yourself?"
"Correct…"
"Usually, how old is the organ supplier?"
"Usually in their thirties."
"What if the chosen one doesn't want to have blood drawn?"
"He will for sure let us do it."
"How?"
"They will for sure find a way. What do you worry about? These kinds of things should not be of any concern to you. They have their procedures."
"Does the person know that his organ will be removed?"
"No."
WND also has reported on the growing reports of arrests of Christians, demolition of homes, ejection of foreign missionaries and other restrictions China is creating in light of the coming Olympics.
China Aid even has revealed a memorandum to local authorities describing dozens of types of individuals who will be subject to arrest during the Games, and the World Congress of Families has reported that a new campaign in China to rid the countryside of pro-abortion slogans as crude as "Raise fewer babies but more piggies" is just a cover-up for a continuation of the nation's program that penalizes families with more than one child.
"Instead of abandoning its draconian program of forced population control, China is trying to put a happy-face on its extreme anti-family policies," said Allan C. Carlson, international secretary of the organization.
Another slogan that now has been discontinued was: "House toppled, cows confiscated, if abortion demand rejected." And also forbidden was: "One more baby means one more tomb." Such slogans are found painted on buildings along rural roads, as well as in other uses.
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