(A3a2d) resisting the cutlure of death in China

China has a one child policy. This policy is vigorously enforced. The mothers of single children are routinely sterilized. Any who escape sterilization and become pregnant again are forcibly taken into custody and have their child aborted. ******* As of this date, 05-02-26, this folder contains 4 items. ******* item 1 CHINESE SEEKING ASYLUM FROM FORCED ABORTIONS GET ANOTHER VICTORY ******* item 2 CHINESE WOMAN WHO FOUGHT FORCED ABORTION RECEIVES CONTINUED TORTURE ******* item 3 CHINA PROVINCE WILL BAN SOME LATE-TERM ABORTIONS AND GENDER SELECTION ******* item 4 CHRISTIAN WOMAN EXECUTED FOR DISTRIBUTING BIBLES ********************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 1 CHINESE SEEKING ASYLUM FROM FORCED ABORTIONS GET ANOTHER VICTORY ******* by Steven Ertelt ******* LifeNews.com Editor ******* March 16, 2004 ******* San Francisco, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Chinese who are seeking asylum in the United States from the forced abortion population control programs of their home country were granted another victory by a federal appeals court on Monday. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the husband of a woman who fled the country after a forced abortion can't be refused asylum simply because China refused to recognize their marriage. ******* A three judge panel said the Board of Immigration Appeals should have granted asylum to Kui Rong Ma. His wife told him to flee China in 1999 after she was forcibly aborted by population control program officials. ******* The ruling follows a February decision by the same court that couples who face threats of forced abortions or sterilizations but haven't actually been victimized qualify for asylum. ******* In the latest case, the immigration board had declined to grant asylum to Ma and his wife, Lei Chiu Ma, because they had married secretly in a ceremony put on by their local village since they failed to meet Chinese requirements for marriage. ******* The communist country requires men to be at least 22 years-old and women 20 years-old prior to getting married. ******* Two months after the secret wedding, Chiu became pregnant. ******* To ensure that her pregnancy would not be noticed by local birth control officials, Chiu hid in her aunt's house in another nearby village. ******* Ma wanted to live with his wife without fear of reprisal, so he attempted to register his marriage with local authorities. But that resulted in birth control officials becoming aware of Chiu's pregnancy. ******* In October 1998, local officials came to Ma�s house and demanded that he produce his wife for a physical examination. ******* When Ma refused to tell the officials where Chiu was hiding, they seized Ma�s 63-year-old father, threatening that he would be placed in detention until Chiu presented herself for an abortion. Ma tried to stop the officials from taking his father, but they beat Ma and took his father into custody. ******* Ma did not tell Chiu about his father's detention, because he did not want her to surrender herself for a forced abortion. ******* However, family planning officials deliberately spread the news that Ma�s father had been placed in prison, hoping it would lead them to Chui. When she learned of her father-in-law's detention and heard that he might be tortured because she was hiding, she went to the Family Planning Office to plead for his release. ******* She thought she might be able to persuade the officials to let her have their child, because the couple had no other children. ******* Instead, family planning officials arrested her and forcibly aborted the pregnancy, which was in its third trimester. ******* Chiu became physically and mentally ill following the abortion. ******* Chiu encouraged Ma to leave the country and to send for her as soon as he reached the United States. Ma smuggled himself aboard a boat, but, upon his arrival in Guam, he was intercepted by immigration authorities and placed in an immigration detention center, where he remained for a number of years. ******* Ma's asylum request was originally granted by a local judge but the Immigration and Naturalization Service won an appeal on grounds that Ma and Chiu's marriage was not certified by the Chinese government. ******* Ma appealed that decision and the 9th Circuit agreed with him that asylum should have been granted. ******* Congress has allowed up to 1,000 people annually to be granted asylum in the United States because of China's population control program that includes forced abortions and sterilizations. The policy also covers spouses of those fleeing persecution. ******* Attorneys for Ma contended that the marriage restriction is an integral part of the policy that Congress targeted and that in China a pregnancy occurring during a marriage that is not registered is subject to abortion. ******* In their opinion, the federal appeals court agreed. ******* "The BIA's refusal to grant asylum to an individual who cannot register his marriage with the Chinese government on account of a law promulgated as part of its coercive population control policy, a policy deemed by Congress to be oppressive and persecutory, contravenes the statute and leads to absurd and wholly unacceptable results," the court wrote. ****************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 2 CHINESE WOMAN WHO FOUGHT FORCED ABORTION RECEIVES CONTINUED TORTURE ******* From: "LifeNews.com" ******* Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 Beijing, China(LifeNews.com) -- A Chinese woman who lost her job and was pressured to have an abortion after she became pregnant continues to be tortured in a governmental prison because she refuses to relent from her position against China's population control policies. Mao Hengfeng has suffered during her imprisonment at a "re-education labor camp" somewhere in China. She was sentenced to the camp for two years. Mao has been bound hand and foot and suspended in midair and has been repeatedly subjected to abuse and beatings, according to Human Rights in China (HRIC). "According to the latest reports HRIC has received, Mao has more recently been subjected to even more brutal treatment," the watchdog group indicated. "HRIC's sources say camp police bound Mao's wrists and ankles with leather straps, and then proceeded to pull her limbs in separate directions, while demanding that she acknowledge wrongdoing," the group added. Sixteen years ago, Mao was fired from her job at a soap factory after she became pregnant for a second time. She refused to have an abortion, which Chinese population control officials mandated. Since then, Mao has continued to complain to the Chinese government about what happened, asking officials to allow her to return to work and to restore other basic rights she has been denied. ********************************************************************************************************************* ******* item 3 CHINA PROVINCE WILL BAN SOME LATE-TERM ABORTIONS AND GENDER SELECTION ******* From: "LifeNews.com" ******* Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 ******* Guiyang, China (LifeNews.com) -- Just two days after a Congressional hearing looking into continued human rights abuses related to China's population control policies, a provincial government has announced it will prohibit late-term abortions and limit gender selection. Southwest China's Guizhou Province will soon prohibit abortions after 14 weeks into the pregnancy. Those who perform such abortions will face fines of about $3,600, or six times the amount of the cost of the abortion. The city government in Guiyang, the province's capital, will also prohibit gender identification for nonmedical purposes in an attempt to stem the tide of sex-selection abortions. China continues to face a staggeringly abnormal male-female ratio as Chinese families opt for abortions when ultrasounds reveal a girl baby. Rural Chinese often kill newborn infant girls as men are preferred to work farms and carry on the family line. The one-child policy has contributed to the stark gender imbalance in China, which, according to the 2000 census, was about 117 males to 100 females. For sometimes illegal second births, the national ratio was about 152 to 100. The city's officials said the new regulations were necessary because the male-female ratio in Guiyang is 129 to 100 and 147 to 100 for couples seeking to have a second or third child. The result of the gender imbalance has been an increase in forced prostitution and the trafficking of women as more men are unable to find wives. ************************************************************************************************************************ ******* item 4 CHRISTIAN WOMAN EXECUTED FOR DISTRIBUTING BIBLES ******* from The Voice of the Martyrs and Conservative Petitions" ******* Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 ******* When 34-year old Jiang Zongxiu went to her neighboring market last June in Guizhou Province, China. Along with her mother-in-law, Jiang went through the marketplace, taking opportunities to hand out Bibles and Christian literature and telling people about Jesus. Only this day they had an encounter with the Chinese police. ******* The two Christian women were handcuffed together and brought to the police station. They were interrogated throughout the evening of the 17th. The next morning they were sentenced by the Public Security Bureau (PSB) to 15 days incarceration for "suspected spreading of rumor and disturbing the social order." ******* The two Christian women were handcuffed together and brought to the police station. They were interrogated throughout the evening of the 17th. The next morning they were sentenced by the Public Security Bureau (PSB) to 15 days incarceration for "suspected spreading of rumor and disturbing the social order." ******* Jiang and her mother-in-law knew the risk of spreading Christian literature in communist China. Both had been active in their church for more than 10 years and dared to go forth. Even when they were arrested, interrogated and sentenced to serve 15 days, they were willing to accept the consequences of their actions�all from a government that claims to have "freedom of religion." ******* But it was not enough for the PSB to arrest and beat these two Christian women for the crime of passing our Christian literature. In the afternoon of June 18th, Mrs. Jiang Zongziu was pronounced dead by the PSB office of Tongzi County. They claimed she died of "natural causes." The fact is she was beaten to death. ******* The Voice of the Martyrs has received video testimony from the surviving family, photos of Jiang body showing her bruised body, and a copy of the actual arrest document. All of this had to be smuggled out of China as the authorities continue to attempt to hide their systematic persecution of Christians. An international campaign is now under way on behalf of the surviving family. ******* Much of the world would like you to believe Christians are no longer persecuted. Sister Jiang�s family would disagree. Now you can stay informed of what is really happening to your Christian brothers and sisters in countries like China and even discover practical ways to help, with a FREE subscription to The Voice of the Martyrs monthly newsletter. ******* Want to help out with a donation to RightMarch.com? https://secure.cartlight.com/merchant/rightmarch/?afid=conpet ******* You can sign up for our Conservative Alerts for FREE! Go here: http://www.ConservativePetitions.com/ 284 Shalom Road, Waynesboro, VA 22980 ******* Questions or comments? Email us at [email protected] *********************************************************************************************************************

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The following warning is a prophetic message given to me, Frank Wagner, in November of 1974. ******* LISTEN TO THE CRY OF THE ABORTED CHILDREN. THEIR CRY IS NO. THEIR CRY IS A CRY OF TERROR. HEED THEIR CRY. ******* This prophecy is now being fulfilled. ******* For details about the source, meaning and fulfillment of this prophetic message go to ******* http://ca.geocities.com/fwagner4/index.html ******* email me at *** [email protected] ***