A few weeks ago a friend of mine told me about a new book that is out called;  The Seven Sorrows of China, by Dr. Mark Miravalle. This book is an account of what he has seen and experienced in his travels to China. The one that was pointed out to me was Fetal Soup?? Have you heard of this? Apparently it has been a “rumor” for quite awhile. I was gladly ignorant until now…

Could it be true? And, if it is, WHY? How could humanity in ANY culture allow such a thing? How can sin be THAT rampant? I find it to be one of the most horrifying thoughts and things I can imagine. The saddest part is that these people need Jesus…desperately!

Please do not take this as a “hate China” post. This is a “WOW, I cannot believe the sin in this world” post. Unfortunately, China is the one doing it. We need to pray for these people, their souls, and the very morality of this world!

I am not a fan of the leadership of China, and I STRONGLY believe that they are an enemy to the United States. NOT the Chinese people as a whole…but the leadership. I think that even the RUMOR of this, should be enough for OUR government to THINK about WHO we are in bed with, if you know what I mean.

We are in bed with evil. We better wake up before they take more than just our wheat!

What are your thoughts? Have you heard of this APPALLING practice? I am shocked and could not even write about it for awhile until I was in a place where I was focused and not mean spirited.

Here is a review of the book:

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/feb/08020109.html

Welcome to my journey, an exploration of sorts.

Before I take you any further on this blog I would like to first explain how I arrived to where I’m at. One day, while doing my typical blog surfing, I came upon a link that read 61 Christian Women forced to have abortions. Being avidly pro-life, I clicked it curious what I would find. I ended up on the China View Blog. What I read left me completely shocked.

While I had known for quite awhile that China practices population control through their one-child policy, and has always hated it, this time it penetrated much deeper. Reading the stories of my Christian brothers and sisters on the other side of the world having their almost to term, and sometimes at term babies, ripped out of their bodies tore a hole in my heart beat. Having a 2 children under the age of 4 it has not been long since I have felt my babies growing inside. The idea of doing your best to keep those babies alive and protect them from a government that wants them dead struck a new chord for me. The government deciding to suck life out of you and killing it with their bare hands if the baby somehow survived the process.

Not much later, I found an article on live human organ harvesting. Having been in a bubble and never having heard of this before, this atrocity seemed too impossible, too inhumane to be true. It seemed like something I would find in a science fiction novel that portrayed the decline of human-kind to the point of zero conscience and empathy. The sad part, it wasn’t a piece of fiction.

Curious about this topic, I dug deeper. I read the human organ harvesting report. Despite the length, I trekked through it over several sittings. At times I had to put it down because I had to do something for my children. Other times the information saddened me so much, I had to put it down. It left me with absolute assurance this practice was both continuing and strengthening in China, despite the government’s complete denial. Of course, the deny Tienanmen Square happened and we have video footage of that event.

I spent a month trying to figure out how to articulate what I was learning. The enormity of what my head and heart were trying to grasp caused words to completely fail me. After that month, I did my best. With so much information, the difficulty of choosing which to share with my readers overwhelmed. I knew most would not have the time or desire to read the lengthy report themselves, but somehow more people needed to find out about what was happening a half-world away.

I kept my eye on the China View Blog and kept praying about what God wanted me to do with this gigantic burden I felt. At times I felt crazy. I felt insignificant. I felt far too insignificant to make any sort of difference in this matter. I questioned over and over the ideas I started coming up with. I kept asking God to take the burden from me. After all, I had learned of many atrocious things over my life-time that broke my heart. But none of them stuck with me like this.

I could not stop thinking about the Chinese people. Those who live in religious oppression and are forced to do that which was against every fiber of what they believe. I kept thinking of the manufacturing industry and the vast amount of workers living and breathing horrible conditions for the sake of saving money. I thought of the vast amount of money China makes on the United States alone, when just about everything about their world-view goes against what we value as a country. What do China and the US have in common, our love of money. And that love of money, that the Bible calls, “the root of all evil”, gives the US and China a sick sort of intimacy. An intimacy that could at some point bring us down.

I know that no matter how insignificant and powerless I prove to be, I have to try something. I have to TRY to make a difference. I have to try to continue learning more and more about China and educate others in the process. I hold no claim of being a China expert. I have so very much to learn in every aspect of the matter, but I’m embarking on a journey to learn more. I have to know why this burdens me so much. I have to try….. (to be continued tomorrow)

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I wrote this post as the first of a two part submission to theWriting Thoughts and Grow Your Writing Business Blogs’ Group writing project called Shared Thoughts 07. The project is to post about a challange, and approach; or a problem and solution through 2 posts on your blog. I needed to write my “about” page anyway. After I post both, they will be compacted into one text on my “about” page.
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Article published by BBC August 5, 2007. [Hat Tip China View Blog.]

China has decided to tone down some of the slogans used to promote its one-child policy, in a bid to make them sound less threatening. Some posters used in rural areas will be banned, such as one which read “One more baby means one more tomb.”

A list of 190 acceptable slogans is being issued instead.

Chinese authorities believe the strong language of some slogans is harming the image of the one-child policy, in place since 1979 to limit population growth.

The official Xinhua news agency explained the decision of the National Population and Family Planning Commission as “an effort to win more understanding to the country’s population control policy.”

Largest population

It gave examples of “low quality” slogans posted on rural banners or the internet: “Raise fewer babies but more piggies”, “Houses toppled, cows confiscated, if abortion demand rejected” and “One more baby means one more tomb.”

Among the new slogans recommended are “The mother earth is too tired to sustain more children” and “Both boys and girls are parents’ hearts.”

China’s 28-year-old family planning policy limits most urban couples to just one child and allows some families in the countryside to have a second child if their first is a girl.

Critics say it has led to forced abortions, sterilizations and a dangerously imbalanced sex ratio due to a traditional preference for male heirs, which has prompted some families to abort female fetuses in the hope of getting boys.

China has the largest population in the world - 1.3bn in 2005 - and says its policies have helped limit its growth rate.

In China they not only try to decide for you that the village can raise your child better than you can, but that they know how many children you should have. Realizing that most enlightened people find this policy repulsive and BEYOND oppressive they are trying to put it in more palatable terms.

No, No we aren’t a infanticidal government, we are just trying to reduce our carbon footprint!

You know I could rant so much longer on this… but instead I thought I would let you tell me what you think of the article.

Originally posted on Motherhood is Not a Cussword by Mommy Zabs.

can’t stop thinking about THESE WOMEN in China!My heart breaks for them and my mind cannot even begin to imagine the horror of their experience. These are my brothers and sisters. I don’t know them, yet we are joined by one Father, God. It grieves me to think of them having to endure this. I just keep thinking, “what in the world can I do?” I am not a powerful politician, or advocate for the religiously oppressed. I am not a pastor, or someone that runs a charity.

Right now in my quiet times (the time I spend during the day reading out of the Bible and praying,) I am reading through Pual’s letters to the Corinthians. I just finished the first letter (1st Corinthians) and am at the beginning of the 2nd letter, (2nd Corinthians). As I have been studying, I have been reading the passage, then going back and re-reading it and writing down what the passage tells me about Jesus. Then, I read over that list, and again read the passage asking myself what my response should be, or put otherwise, “What is my responsibility?”.

1ST CORINTHIANS 1:3-11 READS:

3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. 5For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. 6If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
8We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. 9Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. 10He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, 11as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.”

These women are undergoing religious oppression. This is a foreign concept to most of us living in the states. But to these women oppression is concrete reality. They chose to carry their babies to term out of obedience to God and as a result their government forced late term and even full term abortions. They were forced to deliver their babies either dead or almost dead. They are sharing in the sufferings of Christ because they are undergoing much pain for following him. I take comfort that as it says in verse six, as they share in His sufferings they will also share in his comfort.

I also want to point out how Paul talks of being delivered from “such a deadly peril”. He stated, “He will deliver us, on him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, as you help us by your prayer. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.”

What I am asking you to do if you pray, is PRAY DAILY and more for these women. Pray for the “God of all comfort” to comfort those who mourn, (as promised in this passage and in Matthew 5:4) and pray for their miraculous deliverance, both for those who have gone through this and those set to go through it. Pray that no more babies would be sacrificed at the hands of the Chinese government. That God would deliver and continue to deliver these women, these families. And pray out of urgency and passion with belief that we serve a God that is capable of all things. He hears our prayers for the deliverance of those who are oppressed.

That is all I know how to do right now. Sometimes it doesn’t feel like enough. But verse 10 and 11 make it clear that these prayers do help.

Also PLEASE spread the word. Save Darfur, (a worthy cause,) and The One Campaign, (another worthy cause,) have both gained incredible awareness through grass roots marketing tools that in turn have captured the attention of politicians and governments. We have to keep talking about these women that their sacrifice would not have been in vein but to save others from enduring the same fate.

An incredible charity devoted to Asia that you should check out if you have not before is Asia’s Hope.

Posted originally on Mommy Zabs.

Taken from Status of Chinese People
Tipped by: A Voice of Reason

61 Christian Women Forced to Have Abortions in China

Posted by chinaview on April 21st, 2007

According to China Aid Association (CAA), a massive forced abortion campaign is ongoing in China’s Guangxi Province targeting Christian pregnant women. It’s reported that 61 Christian women were forced to have abortions in 2 days on April 17 and 18. Here’s China Aid Association’s reports.

41 forced abortion on April 17:

Midland, Texas (April 17, 2007)- CAA has learned that a massive forced abortion campaign is ongoing in China’s Guangxi Province(Autonomous Region).

One Christian lady, Ms. Linrong Wei, 7 months preganent, was dragged into the hospital from her home on April 17 at 8:45 AM (Beijing time) by 10 officials from the Population and Family Planning Commsssion in Baise City, Guangxi. Her husband Yage “James” Liang was formerly a pastor in the government-sanctioned TSPM church before he became a House church pastor a year ago.

According to eyewitnesses’ reports to CAA, 40 other preganant women was forcefully moved to the Youjiang District People’s Hospital of Baise City on the same day to perform forced abortion.

Eyewitnesses told CAA that pastor Liang’s wife was pregenant accidentally and they wanted to keep this baby because of Christian principles. Ms. Wei was injected with medicine to induce birth at 11 AM on April 17. Ms. Wei’s hospital bed number is No. 39.

Eyewitnesses report that another woman, 9 months preganent, on bed number 38 was also injected at 12 PM.

One Church leader in that area who has visited Ms. Wei told CAA that these so-called ‘illegal pregnant women” were treated so bad that they were just forced to lay down on the very simple beds in the hospital corridor before the injections were done.

The family planning officials told relatives of the women that their babies will be born and most likely die within 24 hours.

20 more forced abortion on April 18:

Midland, Texas (April 18, 2007)- The Massive forced abortion campaign continues in Guangxi province. After 41 women were forced to have abortions on April 17, CAA has learned that the Youjiang District People’s Hospital of Baise City performed forced abortions for at least 20 more pregnant women on April 18.

Eyewitnesses report to CAA that at around 5:00pm on April 18, more than 20 more pregnant women were transported into the same hospital by the Family Planning officials. Within 30 minutes, about 10 of them were injected forcefully for an abortion.

This means within last 24 hours, at least 61 babies were killed with forced abortions.

At Bed number 37, Ms. He Caigan was 9 months pregnant. Officials injected her baby’s head and 20 minutes later, her baby stopped moving and died.

About 6am on April 18(BJ time), pastor James Liang’s wife Ms Wei Linrong gave birth to a boy, but he was dead because of the injection. She received three doses of injection-one is to induce the birth and the other two to kill the baby in the womb.

After China Aid reported the forced abortion, many PSB were seen surrounding the section of the hospital where these women are held.

Post originally written on Motherhood is Not a Cussword by Mommy Zabs.