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Title: Chinese Parents Flee to America to Save their ‘Out-of-Plan’ Babies
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URL Source: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/chi ... out-of-plan-babies-170727.html
Published: Jan 8, 2012
Author: Jenny Liu
Post Date: 2012-01-09 04:14:48 by Tatarewicz
Keywords: None
Views: 137
Comments: 6

Mrs. Liu fled from China to escape a forced abortion. She gave birth to her baby in Los Angeles on Dec. 2, 2011. (Jenny Liu/The Epoch Times)

LOS ANGELES--Three Chinese parents share their ordeals of fleeing from China to escape forced abortion and other reprisals because of an “illegal, out-of-plan” second pregnancy.

China has in place a 30-year one-child family regulation. All “out-of-plan” pregnancies--a second pregnancy, a pregnancy by a single woman, or by an under-aged couple, for example--are aborted, by force, if a woman does not voluntarily submit to it, unless she can pay a hefty fee.

According to Zhai Zhenwu, director of Renmin University’s School of Sociology and Population in Beijing, of the 16 million babies born in China each year less than one percent is “out-of-plan.”

Some Chinese parents who want a second child are opting to go to other countries, including the U.S., to give birth. But escaping Chinese family planning authorities is no easy feat. Officials’ Careers on the Line

Mrs. Liu, from Shandong Province, came to Los Angeles in September of last year to give birth to a second child that she would have been forced to abort in China.

Mrs. Liu is 36 years old and already has one son. Both she and her husband are government employees. Having more than one child would mean paying fines and losing their jobs. In 2004 Mrs. Liu had an abortion for an unexpected pregnancy. Last spring she became pregnant again, but this time she decided to keep the baby.

To prevent her colleagues from finding out and reporting her, she initially planned to hide at her parents’ home, saying she was attending an offsite study program. Nevertheless, somebody at her workplace, a university, still reported her pregnancy to her superiors.

“Nowadays the family planning policy in China is tied to [public] officials’ performance. A local government supervisor can forget about being promoted if something goes wrong in the execution of the family planning policy in his jurisdiction. My pregnancy became a tool for power struggle among some officials, that’s why someone reported my case to higher officials,” Mrs. Liu told The Epoch Times.

Mrs. Liu also said that the local municipal government published a notice, saying informants would get rewards.

As six to seven officials’ careers were on the line, the school’s president, vice president, and director of Population and Family Planning tried many times to persuade Mrs. Liu to have an abortion, she said.

The day before she left China, the officials came to her mother’s home to check on her. To look thinner and not pregnant, she tied a belt around her waist before meeting with them, Mrs. Liu said.

“They asked me to sign a guarantee statement saying that I was not pregnant, and that I would take responsibility for any consequences if I were [pregnant].”

Mr. and Mrs. Liu thought that the worst thing that could happen to them was paying the fines or losing their jobs. But later they found that the water supply, electricity, and heating of their apartment were cut off. Mrs. Liu’s parking space was also taken away, and they realized that they might even lose their apartment.

In order to save the husband’s job, the couple even considered divorce as a last resort, because if their apartment were confiscated, they would not be able to afford another one, even if they spent their life savings, Mrs. Liu said.

Mrs. Liu was eventually able to leave China and come to the United States, using the opportunity of accompanying her son to study abroad. But officials didn’t stop harassing them even after she left China.

“They even planned on sending someone over to ‘settle the score’ with me, but gave it up after learning that it wouldn’t work in the United States.”

On Dec. 2, Mrs. Liu gave birth to a healthy baby in Los Angeles.

“After seeing my baby, I felt that I could give up anything,” she said. On the Brink of Mental Collapse

Mrs. Song is from China’s northern Dalian City. She became pregnant with her second child when she was in her 40s. She too came to Los Angeles to save her baby.

“Having a baby should be a happy thing, but before I left China, I was on the brink of mental collapse,” she said.

Her coworkers didn’t notice that she was pregnant because she was always a bit chubby, she said. She then moved to a different area where people didn’t know her, so that nobody would report her to the authorities.

Nevertheless, she still had to be very careful when she went outside, she said.

“I always carried something in my hands or leaned forward while walking, in order to hide my belly.”

Mrs. Song said she was able to leave China through a work-related overseas study program. My Children Can Grow Up Healthy

Mr. Fang used to be an executive of a large company in Shanxi Province. With a monthly salary of close to 20,000 yuan (US$3,175), his income was higher than that of an average well-to-do Chinese family. But after learning that having a second “illegal” child would result in a fine of over 530,000 yuan (US$84,168) and litigation, he decided to leave China with his whole family.

“Instead of suffering and having financial losses, we are better off coming to the United States,” Mr. Fang said.

Owning a house and a car, they lived a very comfortable life in China, Mr. Fang said, yet he often felt like a dead person.

Adjusting to their new life in America took time, especially learning a new language, he added. “But the air here is fresh, and they have a good education system. My children can grow up healthy. I am very pleased,” he said.

According to 2011 state media reports, an estimated 13 million abortions are performed in China annually; however official statistics only include hospital-performed abortions.

China has the highest female suicide rate in the world.

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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

Now that we are messing around in China's neighborhood and with their oil supply, we need to remember their one child policy. They have more than 30 million men under thirty who will never have a wife.

octavia  posted on  2012-01-09   17:32:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: octavia (#1)

They have more than 30 million men under thirty who will never have a wife.

So if they can't use their "gun" for how it's intended, they will use their rifle instead.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere. Voltaire

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. Voltaire

intotheabyss  posted on  2012-01-09   17:34:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: octavia (#1)

CPC leadership just doesn't have the wits/capability of managing the current population in terms of arranging the good life for everyone so they want to stabilize/reduce the population. They don't even have enough smarts to "put people to work" to reduce and eventually eliminate the practically unbearable pollution. More people doesn't have to mean more pollution, etc.,but rather can mean more problem solvers if organized and mobilized to do so.

Tatarewicz  posted on  2012-01-10   0:51:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

I have been saying for years China is no threat to us and is going to collapse.

For one thing, 1005 of their economic growth to due to exports to the U.S.

When seconds count, the police are minutes away.

Turtle  posted on  2012-01-10   13:01:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Turtle (#4)

I keep waiting for the day that the chinese peasants get tired of being oppressed by communism and decide to murder the bastards in Beijing. I wonder if the common chinaman has it in him to do the right thing??

“With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group."
-Alex Kurtagic

X-15  posted on  2012-01-10   13:14:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: X-15 (#5)

i found a book last year by a mainstream US reporter who spent years in china & outlined the amazingly despotic tactics of the commies today. it was really good read. I'm surprised it was published.. ill find it when i have time.

"Even to the death fight for truth, and the LORD your God will battle for you". Sirach 4:28

Artisan  posted on  2012-01-10   13:39:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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