I am going to write a shorter diary; I am disappointed that coverage on Daily Kos of this issue has been limited to non-existent.
This past week, a powerful image has been circulating online, that shows the brutality and barbarity of China's despicable one child policy. It shows Feng Jianmei, a Chinese mother, and the bloody, dead body of her 28-week old child, who was killed following a forced abortion.
To understand the passion of my diary, see the image here: http://shanghaiist.com/...
Feng Jianmei's baby deserves better. The Chinese deprived this innocent child of a right to live a full life. Feng Jianmei will never experience a cloudless summer day, eat a bowl of warm soup, or get married. The Chinese deprived the mother of her rights to live freely and choose to give her child life.
We, the United States, are complicit in this murder, and in a larger context, this murderous policy. Joe Biden once said to a group of Chinese students, "Your policy has been one which I fully understand – I’m not second-guessing – of one child per family."
Mr. Biden should have been condemning this gruesome and cruel policy in the harshest of words. Even though he apologized and retracted his words, I wish he originally issued an adamant denunciation of population-control measures and China's inhumanity. We should call on the Obama Administration to be more forceful enough in pressuring China to end this policy. It is also time to add restrictions to US' donations to UNFPA: no US money should be spent on forced abortions, forced sterilization, or China's one-child policy. It's time to take action collectively; I wrote a letter to the White House after Biden's words.
As liberals, we believe in justice and freedom for all, and in particular, justice in freedom for the most disadvantaged of society. This commitment to help the underserved and the underprivileged resulted in the creation of Social Security, Medicare, and the ACA. This responsibility to help those less fortunate than us leads us to serve the elderly, the homeless, and fight for immigrant rights. As both Kennedy and Churchill have said, the test of a civilization is how it treats its most helpless members. We are compeled to stand for Feng Jianmei, her child, and the helpless victims of China's one-child policy.