ABORTED 'FETUSES' OR BORN BABIES? AUTHORITIES CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE, WHY SHOULD THE LAW?

This morning I happened upon a horrific, but not altogether surprising news story. In eastern China, at least 21 dead babies were discovered washed up on the bank of a river. Given China's heinous one-child policy and their history of forced abortions and other blantant human rights violations, this story wouldn't normally have prompted a blog. However, this quote from the article got me thinking: "Authorities were quoted by Beijing News saying the corpses could have been those of aborted fetuses or babies who had died of illness."

If "authorities" cannot tell the difference between a born infant who has died of natural causes and a preborn child murdered by a "physician," then why should the law recognize a difference in which one is protected?

The media, police and hospitals involved are reacting to the discovery of at least 21 dead human beings and they aren't even sure how these little people died. This incident prompted the government to order health authorities to "launch a general overhaul of body treatment at all local hospitals." Body treatment, not the treatment of products of conception or the treatment of pregnancies or the treatment of fetal tissue.

If these babies were killed by intentional abortion, then they would be deemed (in both China and the U.S.) medical waste. In fact, one of the bodies was found wrapped in a plastic bag and marked "hospital waste."

After the discovery, two mortuary workers were fired and held in police custody, and two high-ranking hospital officials were suspended from their posts.


A city government spokesman said the incident exposed “a serious loophole in the hospital’s management and indicates a lack of ethics and legal awareness of some hospital staff. It exerts a very negative impact on society and teaches us a profound lesson.” And what lesson is that? He doesn't say.

But, instead of commenting on the complete and utter disregard for human dignity, the Xinhua news agency assured people that the river where the babies were found "was not a source of drinking water for the city" and "had not been contaminated." Oh, how comforting. Wouldn't want the blood of dead babies contaminating your water supply, now would we?

The river may not have been contaminated, but the hardened hearts and societal mores of China sure are.

Thankfully, the reporter mentioned how common abortion is in China, particularly because of the one-child policy. The article even discusses the preference for favoring male offspring and aborting female children.

This is not a lone incident. The treatment of patients (dead or alive) in Chinese hospitals is not a priority, the news story notes. In fact, last summer, two adults, six aborted babies and a bag of severed human limbs were dumped at a construction site when the hospital couldn't locate relatives.

Notice how the deceased were listed together. They were all human beings. The only difference between the born and preborn humans is their location. Every single human being on the planet differs from others by their varying levels of development, differing sizes and changing degrees of dependency.

Our country, like China, allows for mass genocide simply because preborn humans reside inside of their mother's wombs. Once outside the womb, whether these babies are dead or alive, no one questions their humanity. They are unequivocally little human persons.

The nonsensical contradictions and violations of human rights must stop! We must never stop fighting against the dehumanization of persons and the metamorphisis of wombs into bloody tombs.