Chinese Couples who lost 'One Child' in the Quake 'allowed' to Conceive

The regime in China has made an exception to its "one child policy".

BEIJING (Catholic Online) - The devastating May 12, 2008 earthquake in China's southwestern province of Sichuan has now caused over 67,000 deaths, according to Chinese Government estimates.

Included among this staggering number of deaths are the thousands of children who have died. Many of these children were killed in collapsing school buildings.

The reasons for the collapses are currently under investigation. The entire matter has become a source of growing unrest among the citizenry of China.

Government officials have issued apologies. They have also begun investigations into the construction materials used in building the schools.

In the frenzy of the Chinese Government's efforts to respond to all of this, a strange turn of events has occurred.

Babies have become a treasured 'commodity' in China these days. The Government has banned most Chinese parents from having more than one child for almost thirty years.

It is well documented that China has engaged in coerced abortions to enforce this ban on the birth of children.The Draconian policy has resulted in at least 400 million fewer births, and a staggering number of abortions.

Now, there is word that the regime in China has made an exception to its "one child policy". Families who lost their only child in the earthquake may now apply to the Governments 'family planning' agency.

They will be issued a "permit" to have another child "legally".

This modification to the anti-life Chinese law does not alter the Governments "one child" policy. It applies only to those families who have suffered in the earthquake regions.

The modifications also 'permit' couples who adopt a child who was abandoned as a result of the quake - and have not yet conceived their own "allowed" child - to have a second child by natural birth.

Finally, the regulations provide for a payment of an annual sum to parents over 50 years of age who have lost their only child as a result of the earthquake.

The treatment of children as commodities in China, products to be accumulated with the permission of the Government, seems horribly unjust to most observers, and rightly so. However, at its root, is it that different than the current abortion culture of the West?

In the West, it is not the Government which issues a permit, allowing a couple to conceive. Instead the so called abortion "right", created out of whole cloth by unelected Judges, is now enforced by the Police Power of the State.

This positive "law", which violates the Natural Law, 'allows' the parents of a child to secure the services of a medical professional to take her life in the womb for any reason, up to and including the ninth month of pregnancy, if she is not wanted.

This can be done through any number of means from dismemberment, to suction or chemical weapons which are administered in utero.The brutality of these procedures is hidden behind the Wall of the womb, once the safest place on earth.

Whenever children become commodities, all of humanity suffers.

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