When life becomes subordinate to the state. My what a brave, new world!
A couple of days ago, I recieved an email newsletter from Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council recounting a rather chilling story about the horrific power of government to kill when life becomes insubordinate to the state rather than to God:
Newspapers from cities as far away as Melbourne, Australia are anxiously awaiting word on a Uyghur woman in China, six months pregnant with her third child. According to local reports, government officials tracked Arzigul Tursun down in her village and escorted her to a hospital where authorities ordered her to abort the baby against her will. Although guards had been stationed at the hospital, Arzigul managed to escape. After the police interrogated her family, the mother-to-be was recaptured yesterday in the home of some relatives. Her plight has sparked outrage in the international community, which is demanding her release.
In the past, the U.S. government -- at President Bush's insistence -- has withheld funding from groups like the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) for its supporting role in these coercive abortion policies. President-elect Obama has said he will restore U.S. funding to UNFPA. America will no longer be an innocent bystander of tragedies like this one. Instead, the U.S. will be knowingly funding forced abortions like Arzigul's with millions of taxpayer dollars. In an interview with the Obama campaign before the election, RH Reality check asked, "If elected President, would Sen. Obama, overturn the Global Gag Rule or reinstate funding for UNFPA?" A spokesman for the campaign responded, "Yes, Senator Obama would overturn the global gag rule and reinstate funding for UNFPA."
The new administration plans to funnel millions of dollars to UNFPA despite its support of China's savage one-child policy. Contact your leaders and tell them that terrorizing pregnant women is not the "change" America voted for. Urge them to oppose Obama's anti-woman agenda.
Thankfully, the Chicoms have backed off, as reported yesterday by Mr. Perkins in a followup to the above story:
Late yesterday, we received the good news from Reps. Joe Pitts (R-Penn.) and Chris Smith (R-N.J.) that U.S. efforts to protect a Chinese woman from a coerced abortion were successful. Arzigul Tursun was released from custody yesterday and sent home from the hospital, where population control officials had scheduled an abortion against her will. The decision was a victory not just for Arzigul but for women across China. We echo the relief of our pro-life friends in Congress and pray this incident will help persuade the Chinese to reconsider their brutal one-child policy.
Can you imagine what it must be like to have someone order you to murder your own baby in the womb? Here's a woman risking her own life to protect the one within her, and yet as I write this, an American sister someplace is choosing to volutarily do the exact opposite. The horror...
