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IN CHINA, HUMAN LIFE IS NOT SACRED.
Haven Bradford Gow.

According to the state-run ‘China Daily’ newspaper, at least 13 million unborn babies are aborted each year in Communist China, a direct result of China’s iron-fisted, barbaric one-child policy. Instead of pointing the blame at the government’s one-child policies, however, the newspaper put the blame for the large number of abortions on “inadequate knowledge about contraception” and the lack of sex education in the schools and the homes. Still another answer for the number of abortions is the strong preference in Chinese culture for boys rather than girls.

The ‘China Daily’ noted that China has a population of 1.3 billion with 20 million live births per year; in contrast, the U.S.A. has a population of 300 million with four million live births and approximately 1.2 million abortions a year. Sixty-two per cent who procure abortions in China are in their 20’s.

A report in the August 2009 ‘Christian news’ pointed out that the Chinese Communist Government “has publicly reiterated its intention to enforce its draconian ‘one-child’ policy ‘as a means of controlling births for decades to come!  The one-child policy was initiated in 1979 and has resulted in the murder of millions of unborn babies. There are forced abortions, involuntary sterilizations, and if an ‘illegal’ baby slips through the ruthless system, the parents are fined many times the average capita income. The report added: “The reported annual abortion rate in China is 13 million, but that does not include unreported abortions and medication-induced abortions (10 million abortion-inducing pills are sold annually.)”

Communist china has two faces. As ‘Atlantic Monthly’ correspondent  James Fallows points out in his book ‘Postcards from Tomorrow Square’ (Vintage); “China has become a major economic and political power in the world, but at the same time, China is engaged in glaring human rights abuses like its iron-fisted one-child policy.”

Mr. Fallows points out “the ghoulish combination of China’s one-child policy and its strong cultural preference that the one child be a boy. Six boy babies are born and survive in China for every five girls. The imbalance is obvious among children on the street and noticeable even for young people now in their 20s.” One thing that is lacking in the up bringing of Chinese children is religious instruction; consequently, for most Chinese, faith in a God has been replaced by faith in materialism and in economic well being.  Mr. Fallow’s states: “In dramatic contrast to the United States, China has not been a deeply religious society. This leaves …material improvement as a proxy for the meaning of life.”

Another example of China’s glaring human rights abuses is the state’s attack on religious people and churches. A recent report in the ‘Christian News’ pointed out that more than 60 church leaders, along with two south Korean Pastors, were arrested by local police…in Wolong district in China’s Henan province.  The house church leaders came from four provinces to attend a seminar, according to China Aid. They were all Evangelical Christians from different house groups.

In his book ‘A Mother’s Ordeal’ Dr. Steven Mosher, President of the Population Research Institute, provides three excerpts from China’s official one-child/ forced abortion and sterilisation policies:  ‘The husband of the wife of a couple that have two or more children should be sterilised. We should implement thoroughly our policy on sterilisation in those areas and resort to remedial measures (abortions) when dealing with pregnancies that do not comply with planning.”

Government leaders credit China’s stringent population control with helping spur economic growth by reducing the number of mouths that must be fed!  Dr. Steven Mosher tells of a Chinese Mother who escaped the one-child policy and says that she has learnt: - that the enormous wealth of the United States was created by individuals, not by government; most of the countries of the developed world are more densely populated than China; none of these countries have declared war on its own people the way China does; could it be that what is mistakenly called over population is really just under-development?  Could it be that China doesn’t have a people problem so much as it has an economic one?

HOSPICES FOR SICK CHILDREN?.
By Alexandrina Bootman

It is surprising when some people suddenly blurt out:  “It’s awful when the government doesn’t fund Children’s Hospices!”  And it is sadder to find out that these same people do such harm because they do not even bother to find out the facts.

Coming up to the General Election, the media is ready to print certain ‘good’ things that a government in waiting might do, such as telling the public in ‘The Independent’ of Dec. 22nd. 2009 that David Cameron ‘has pledged extra money for the care of terminally ill children’.  Does this not mean that this present Labour Government is actually putting money into children’s hospices? In fact, the newspaper goes on to explain that David Cameron had committed his Party to preserving a £10 million a year government grant for Children’s Hospices that is due to end in March 2011.  So who is daring to say that the present Labour Government does not fund children's hospices?

Let’s make it clear regarding Hospices for adults, that it is the administration of the hospice that decides how much funding it will accept from the government.  Norwich is the only city that has a fully funded NHS Hospice, the Priscilla Bacon Hospice and it is beautifully run as expressed by several local families who have experienced its worth as relatives have been cared for at the Hospice. Living in the area, I am in contact with wives and daughters who have experienced such a wonderful, supportive attitude in dealing with their husbands’ or fathers’ final days.

During a debate in the House of Commons a few years ago, Jim Dobbin, M.P. did bring up this whole issue of hospice funding.  It turned out that the Hospices that run on donations from the public, will only accept 45%  of the expenses incurred in the running of the hospice from the government! 

Please have the facts at your fingertips when some people put up their hands in horror and say how the government will not fund Hospices!  .

OBITUARY

DAVID  TAYLOR  M.P.

It was with great sadness that I heard of the death of DAVID  TAYLOR  M.P. for North West Leicestershire on 26th December 2009.  David’s office in Portcullis House was just down the corridor from mine and he would pop in for a quick chat every now and then.  He was an assiduous member of the House and a well-deserved Parliamentarian Backbencher of the year in 2007 in the Annual Sky TV/ House Magazine Awards. He constantly challenged the Government on many issues and had an independent approach to voting, which he did in a principled way on issues he felt strongly about.  His speeches and interventions were highly regarded as he always spoke in a good-natured way with more than a dash of humour.
A committed Christian, he was ever ready to move amendments and speak passionately on behalf of the All Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group which I chair.  His Pro-life voting record on issues such as abortion, euthanasia and human embryo research was exemplary and courageous.
David also campaigned on behalf of cancer patients and was a driving force on anti-smoking laws.
He was a popular M.P. with his constituents and well liked by his colleagues in all parties in Parliament. His sudden and untimely death came as a shock and he is a great loss to the Labour and Co-op movement. David was a fine example of what a politician should be and parliament is a poorer place by his death. His wife Pam and his 4 daughters can be justly proud of all that he achieved to make life better for so many people. He is sorely missed by all those who knew him,  for his hard work, good humour and selflessness.

Jim Dobbin MP