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Here at work I get LOTS of things that come across my email from different people fighting for life all over the world.  Adoption...my love to the core of me... and abortion are so closely connected.  I TRULY believe if society knew...really knew and understood the beauty of adoption and CHRISTIANS were obedient to our charge to care for the ORPHAN and WIDOW in some way we wouldn't be faced with the facts that 42 MILLION children are aborted every year worldwide....OR....4 MILLION girls are aborted for their gender alone. 

The following didn't come to me via email but was something John Piper posted on FB today.  I am not going to post the picture here, just the article. I will will tell you though, I think we need to see the stark reality of what abortion looks like.  I firmly believe we NEVER show it to those to put guilt or condemnation such as some do when they stand outside abortion clinics with graphic images.  I DO believe we need to have the guts to stand up for those babies such as this one (and her parents) and face those that fight so hard for "Choice"...and for that reason pictures like the one in this article need to be seen.   So many of you my dear friends have brought home precious girls (and boys) from China.  Many of them needed your family simply because they were a girl.   PLEASE pray for these Chinese parents who deeply want their children but the government says they cant have them.  As the article states "we learned that family planning officials in Jianmei’s region are launching a campaign of forced abortions this month. They received a lower grade from the government because of ‘over-quota’ births, and Jianmei’s story shows us how they plan to respond"
Shaanxi, China—Government officials forced Feng Jianmei, who was 7 months pregnant with her second daughter, to undergo an abortion ten days ago. Five family planning officials abducted Ms. Feng on June 2nd while her husband, Deng Jiyuan, was away at work. When she could not pay the fine of 40,000 RMB ($6,270), they forcibly aborted her daughter.


“Feng Jianmei’s story demonstrates how the One-Child Policy continues to sanction violence against women every day,” said Chai Ling. “We learned that family planning officials in Jianmei’s region are launching a campaign of forced abortions this month. They received a lower grade from the government because of ‘over-quota’ births, and Jianmei’s story shows us how they plan to respond. Unfortunately her family was the first to receive the ‘opening of the knife.’”


The news came from a Chinese human rights watchdog site, Chinese Skynet Centre for Human Rights, and was picked up last night by Reggie Littlejohn of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers.


Last night Chai Ling of All Girls Allowed was able to locate the couple and speak to them at length. Deng Jiyuan told her that five men abducted his wife on June 2nd and took her to a hospital. “At the hospital they held her down,” said Jiyuan. “They covered her head with a pillowcase. She couldn’t do anything because they were restraining her.” The men had her “sign” an abortion consent form by inking her thumb and pressing it forcibly against the paper. Then they injected toxins into the brain of her unborn daughter.


Jianmei said, “I could feel the baby jumping around inside me all the time, but then she went still.”


Jianmei’s father-in-law rushed to the hospital, but officials prevented him from seeing her until after the abortion. The couple said one of the family planning officials was named Zhang Xiaosong.


After the injection, Jianmei endured painful contractions at the hospital until 3am local time on June 4th. Then she gave birth to her deceased child without any anesthesia. “It was much more painful than my first childbirth. The baby was lifeless, and she was all purple and blue,” said the mother.


Chai Ling says that Jianmei’s voice was filled with sorrow as she spoke. She said her elder daughter asked, “What happened to your tummy? Where did the baby go?” She has experienced a constant severe headache since the forced abortion. “If this had not happened,” she told Ling, “we would be joyful and everything would be fine.”


Her husband Jiyuan spoke to Ling with great pain, saying “I was gone and she had nobody with her. She is not doing well. A few hours ago, she was thinking about the baby and pulled a knife against herself. I had to stop her.” He wants to help her but feels unable to do anything, “What can I do?” he said, “I’m just an average worker. I have no power.”


Chai Ling asked Jianmei what she would like to say to the public, and she responded, “I wish all the other children in the world would be happy, healthy, and joyful.” Ling was amazed at the grace she showed and comforted the grieving mother, praying that God would restore the immense loss she experienced.


Ling called for action: “Anyone in a position to act—the Chinese central government, foreign embassies in Beijing, the U.S. Department of State—must condemn what happened to Feng Jianmei and protect other women from forced abortion. President Hu Jintao said forced abortions do not happen in China, but this family’s testimony shows that they do. China cannot continue to sanction the violence committed against its female citizens by family planning officials. Enough is enough. China must end the One-Child Policy and forced abortion. I pray they will, in Jesus’ name.”


All Girls Allowed (http://www.allgirlsallowed.org) was founded by Chai Ling in 2010 with a mission to display the love of Jesus by restoring life, value and dignity to girls and mothers in China and to reveal the injustice of the One-Child Policy.
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I know those of you that read my blog are prayer warriors...please pray  for China especially this month as the government tries to sickly bring down their monthly birth quotas.  This is not the first article (or the first pictures I have seen) coming out of China about forced abortions.  It has happened for years.  And pray for the United States...for we are beginning to resemble the country that has given us our dear children. I have personally seen FOUR undercover videos of women going into Planned Parenthoods in the last few weeks asking for abortions. Their reasoning was they did not want their girl baby and PP was fully willing to comply with their wishes. direct quotes from the videos:  "..if that is what you want to base your decision on it is really up to you....everybody has a different story and a different reason and this is your reason.... so they (your doctor) should be accomodating because they can help you determine (the sex) and it is nobody's business and nobody's reasoning but yours"...SUCH wrong thinking!!!!  And this is HERE folks...in OUR cities. 

I know this post is heavy..I find it hard to post about my everyday life when I am faced with such hard stuff around me every day.  Soon I will post an update on my life outside of the center.  I  now have a 20 year old!!!!  WHERE does the time go?!!