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What Reggie Littlejohn Will Learn
For the pro-choice lobby, abortion trumps choice.
Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker has written a powerful commentary on the appalling issue of forced abortion in China. Miss Parker interviewed Reggie Littlejohn, a women’s rights activist, who testified at Tuesday’s hearings on Capitol Hill.
Reggie Littlejohn is a petite woman who heads Women’s Rights Without Frontiers. Attorney Littlejohn gave up a profitable practice to work for human rights.
Dr. Littlejohn showed how China’s brutal policy actually works. Women in China pregnant with their second or third “unauthorized” child, are rounded up and harassed until they submit to abortion — even in the eighth or ninth month.
Estimates range as high as 50 million a year. China’s communist rulers claim it’s all voluntary. Littlejohn knows better. She provided congressional members of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission with incontrovertible evidence that forced abortion is official government policy and that it is widespread.
Dr. Littlejohn is calling upon Planned Parenthood and NARAL to speak up for the women of China who are daily denied their rights. She also hopes President Obama will raise the issue of human rights during his current Asia trip.
What Reggie Littlejohn will learn is what Steven W. Mosher learned more than 25 years ago. Steve Mosher was a young researcher from Stanford University. He was studying village life in rural China.
Then, Steve was “pro-choice.” But he discovered — in fact he was the first Westerner to discover — the way pregnant Chinese women were rounded up, thrown roughly into open trucks, hauled off to abortion centers by Communist Party cadres, and yelled at and stressed until they agreed to have abortions.
Steve was shocked by this denial of choice to these women. So he went public. He wrote about this story. He was promptly thrown out of China. And Beijing threatened Stanford University: If you want to send any more graduate students to China, you had better expel Steve Mosher. Stanford, you’ll remember, was the home of Jesse Jackson-led demonstrations in which student protestors chanted: “Hey hey, Ho ho, Western Civ has got to go.” Western Civilization was expelled from Stanford and so was Stephen Mosher. He was found to have violated rules passed by the Stanford faculty senate after he departed for China.
Steve Mosher thought Planned Parenthood and NARAL would rise to his defense. They didn’t.
And I seriously doubt they will be heard from now. We’ve heard precious little from them about China’s obvious, aggravated denial of choice to Chinese women. Mosher did get a nice editorial in the New York Times tsk-tsking forced abortions in China. The Times, we should be reminded, is not unlike Winston Churchill’s description of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin: “He occasionally stumbles over the truth, but he picks himself up and proceeds as if nothing had happened.
So it will be with President Obama. Reggie Littlejohn hopes the President will raise the issue with the Chinese. He won’t. We read in Kathleen Parker’s column about Chinese doctors sending emails back and forth describing the terrible problem of infants born alive after induced labor abortions. Senior party members advise puncturing their skulls as they are in the birth canal to avoid such dreaded complications.
Anyone who expects Barack Obama to raise this issue with Chinese officials is whistling in the dark. Barack Obama as Illinois state senator led the opposition to the Infant Born Alive Protection Act. He later said he would have voted for the bill if it had been like the one that passed at the federal level. Except that it was similar.
Of course, the world’s Number One enabler of China’s forced abortion policy is President Obama. He hesitated not at all last January before revoking the Mexico City policy initiated by President Reagan. After January 23rd, we are all forced to back abortion. Our tax dollars are backing the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and International Planned Parenthood. Between financial support for China’s brutality and a bailout of the world’s largest abortion provider, Obama has claimed the crown as the world’s premier abortion backer.
Maybe that’s why he won the Peace Prize.
About the Author
Ken Blackwell, the former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio is Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee’s Platform Committee. He also serves on the boards of the Club For Growth and the National Taxpayers Union.
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Darin| 11.13.09 @ 7:01AM
If the US survives, one day we'll look back at the horrors of abortion the same way we now look back at the horrors of slavery. Both subject a group of people to sub-human status and treat them as property.
Jeanne| 11.13.09 @ 7:47AM
I really can not see how China can become a superpower; it's destroying its greatest assets. It's just a matter of time before USA relinquishes its own title of superpower w/ or w/out Obama in office.
MattSwartz| 11.16.09 @ 1:44AM
The One-Child policy long since ceased to make even the most cold-blooded sort of demographic sense. They're literally undercutting their own chances to remain a world power, but evil always has a sort of inertia to it; a fact sadly underscored not only by our own abortion policies but also by our foreign invasion habit.
martin j smith| 11.13.09 @ 7:51AM
If the pro-choice crowd wants the government to be kept out of their lives and allow abortions to be available,then they should logically allow others who want the government out of our lives on Health Care to have our free choice as well. Yes ? So I believe the issue of Choice,Free Choice should be used as a double edged sword against those who support the Democratic Party's No-Choice bill.
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KyMouse| 11.13.09 @ 10:39AM
For more information about forced abortion in China, please read Steven W. Mosher's book "A Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's Fight Against China's One-Child Policy" (1993).
Also please visit the Web site of his organization, the Population Research Institute, at www.pop.org. He's the president. I've heard him speak at pro-life events, and he's very good; if you're looking for a speaker, please consider him. His message needs to be heard.
However, China is not the only place in which mothers are coerced into killing their babies -- it's just that the government has mandated it there. Here in America, about 64 percent of abortions involve some form of coercion by the woman's boyfriend, husband, parents or even well-meaning friends.
In 1995, a pregnant employee in Duluth was mistreated and threatened by a supervisor who wanted her to abort her baby. The boss even threatened to push her down the stairs.
In Florida, Glenda Dowis pleaded guilty to forcing her daughter at gunpoint to go to an abortuary.
In Arizona, Planned Parenthood was found negligent for failing to report a 13-year-old girl's abortion after she was sexually abused by her 23-year-old foster brother. Shawn Stephens took her to the abortuary, but Planned Parenthood didn't notify authorities until the girl returned six months later to abort another baby.
In 2007, Nathan Dale Hubert (also in Minn.) beat his pregnant girlfriend, Sheila Chrast, to death.
And who could forget Scott Peterson, who was convicted for the murder of his pregant wife, Laci, and their unborn son, Conner?
Nine out of ten of women say that domestic violence and assault are the women's issue of greatest concern to them.
It's happening in China, but it's also happening here. So why are the feminists so quiet?
Nick| 11.13.09 @ 11:13AM
And proud LIBERALS like Tom Freidman and Bill Maher lament, "Why can't we be more like China?"
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bob alou| 11.13.09 @ 11:55AM
It's all about choice. We choose to do abortions because we make money.
Gill O’Teen ✝✡| 11.13.09 @ 1:37PM
bob alou, love your handle. Do you have to pay royalties to the estates of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz for its use? Or are you related to the famous baseball family? You’re absolutely correct about the money. Outfits like Planned Parenthood make millions and millions as abortion mills. Ironically, the RNC, that bastion of conservative virtues, just dropped medical insurance abortion coverage for its employees. Way to get my vote, mikey! I'm thrilled you stopped paying to kill babies, but why did you in the first place? Sort of the way you handled NY 23. It’s Third Party time.
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edwards| 11.13.09 @ 4:00PM
Margret Sanger, the heroine of Planned Parenthood, abhorred abortion. She called it what it is, evil.
Planned Parenthood names their abortionitotriums after her.
However, Obama loves abortions, all kinds and ways ( even up until the day of delivery, and after that!)
However, black women make up 13% of the female population , yet have over 35% of all abortions.
Eugenics is working overtime in the black community.
I am contacting every black church I know and letting them know what is happening.
KyMouse| 11.13.09 @ 4:21PM
Margaret Sanger's "Negro Project" should be better known today than it is, but many black churches are now getting the word out, thanks to people such as you, edwards. God bless you!
Planned Parenthood joined forces with the American Eugenics Society to develop the Negro Project as a propaganda campaign to spread the idea of "birth control for health" through the black community. Sanger was contemptuous toward the poor and people with disabilities, calling them "unfit" and "undeserving."
Today, almost half of all black pregnancies end in abortion. More than 14 million black babies have died by abortion since 1973.
Good Web sites that discuss the devastating effect of abortion on black Americans include www.learninc.org and www.everlastinglightministries.org.
KyMouse| 11.13.09 @ 4:35PM
I'll add that Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., works with Gospel of Life Ministries to speak out about abortion's toll on black Americans. She has written, "If Dr. King's dream is to have true meaning, the babies' civil rights must also be respected...his positions on non-violence would lead us all to question the violence of abortion..." Her books include "How Can the Dream Survive If We Murder the Children?"
For more information about abortion in the black community, try www.protectingblacklife.org. and www.nationalblackprolifeunion.com.
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Marc Jeric| 11.13.09 @ 6:51PM
"bob alou" is right. Let us consider the economics of an ordinary one-doctor abortion mill:
1) The abortion specialist owns his abortion mill and pays rent a) ($24,000/year); b) nurse $60,000/year; c) receptionist $30,000/year; d) medical supplies $30,000/year; e) utilities 25,000/year; f) guard $50,000/year.
Total cost is then about $165,000/year. That doctor can perform between 24-35 abortion per work day; say with an average of 240 work days/year this sums up to about 7,000 abortions/year. Assume an average cost of $500 per abortion and you will have a gross income of $3.5 million/year. After subtracting the running costs of $165,000/year, our abortion specialist will end up with the net income before taxes of about $3.3 million/year.
No wonder that Howard Dean who owned a string of abortion mills in Vermont ended up a multi-millionaire. Planned Parenthood is multi-billion dollar operation - that is why they are such a strong proponent of unrestricted abortion "rights". And, of course, a high number of abortions also saves the planet, according to our eco-nazis.
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