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Chinese Woman Tortured After Coerced Abortion Faces More Jail Time


by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
January 5, 2005

Beijing, China (LifeNews.com) -- A woman whose plight has placed a renewed focus on the human rights abuses associated with China's population control policy has been sentenced to more time in a reeducation prison camp.

Just weeks after a Congressional committee held hearing on Mao Hengfeng's forced imprisonment, a human rights watchdog group says the woman who has protested their one-child population control policy will remain in prison an additional three months.

The Shanghai woman has been sentenced to 18 months in the prison camp for her fifteen years-long battle with the Chinese government after she lost her job when she became pregnant a second time.

According to a New York-based human rights agency, Chinese officials, who have subjected Mao to brutal torture, told her of the increased sentence last month.

"The recent increase in Mao's sentence appears to be another sign of retrenchment by the Beijing government in regard to human rights issues," said Liu Qing, president of Human Rights in China.

Since losing her job and other legal rights in the late 1980s, Mao has been imprisoned, was falsely told she would get her job back if she aborted a third pregnancy, and has been assigned to psychiatric wards.

Representative Christopher Smith, a New Jersey Republican, told a meeting of the House International Relations Committee last month that Mao's "is the most egregious example of China's mistreatment of women who do not comply with China's draconian policies, but there are thousands of other victims.''

"The torture of Mao Hengfeng demonstrates that China's drive to control its population growth at any cost to the Chinese people is as strong and dangerous as ever," Smith added.

Michael Kozak, a State Department assistant secretary, said Mao's case highlights the problems in the Chinese system: coercion of abortion or sterilization, the use of forced labor camps, forced imprisonment, and the use of psychiatric hospitals and torture.

Mao has been bound hand and foot and suspended in midair and has been repeatedly subjected to abuse and beatings, according to Human Rights in China.

"HRIC's sources say camp police bound Mao's wrists and ankles with leather straps, and then proceeded to pull her limbs in separate directions, while demanding that she acknowledge wrongdoing," the group added.

Congressman Smith indicated he is worried the torture would lead to Mao's death.

In a surprising development, leading abortion advocates, who normally apologize for the UNFPA and its participation in China's coercive population control program, wrote a letter to Chinese officials asking for Mao's release.



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URGENT! Please continue to pray for Tyamba

www.gateway.org

I just received this email from her mom:

"Good morning Dean, I am emailing you from my laptop. I am in the Catskills. Here with family for holidays. 9 y.o. wanted to snow board.
Although I did not speak with her, Tyamba called me 3 times on Friday starting from 7am. First call no one was speaking, second a whisper I love you (I thought prank call), third call on voice mail, mommy I love you and miss you. Went to police after work. Now a major investigation is going on. Verizon was called and we found out she was calling from NY. However, they closed before the police realized they had no idea where in NY or whether it was a pay phone, cell or home phone. People were called in for overtime to work on her case. Unfortunately, because of the holiday, things will not pick up until today. I pray she was able to stay safe over the weekend.

Still working with the mayors office. Should see Tyamba on the community channel when I get home. It took forever. Some folks did not want others to know this is happening in Irvington. Months ago I put in this request. You could see the Mayor and police chief but nothing else. All a result of changing to a volunteer job instead of paying someone to do the job.

Once again, thank you for prayers. I will be in touch."

HI EVERYONE,

WOULD YOU PLEASE PRAY FOR MY UNCLE, RUDY SEGER? HE HAS BEEN A DIABETIC FOR
YEARS AND LATELY HIS ILLNESS IS PROGRESSING. HE HAD SOME BLOOD WORK DONE
LAST WEEK WHICH REVEALS KIDNEY AND LIVER DAMAGE. HIS DOCTOR WANTS TO TRY A
NEW MEDICATION, BUT SAID IF THINGS DON'T TURN AROUND HE COULD BE ON DIALYSIS
IN A YEAR. IN ADDITION, HE WENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM YESTERSAY BECAUSE HE
WAS FEELING VERY SICK AND NOT EATING, AND WAS DIAGNOSED WITH PNEUMONIA AND
SLIGHT DEHYDRATION. HE WAS ADMITTED TO THE HOSPITAL, BUT FORTUNATELY THE
PNEUMONIA WAS CAUGHT IN ITS EARLY STAGES.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, AND HAVE A BLESSED CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR!

CATHY

The New Civil Rights Movement

Every single day in this country, according to statistics provided by the abortion industry, approximately 1,452 African-American fetuses will be aborted. Planned Parenthood operates the nation's largest chain of abortion clinics and almost 80% of its facilities are located in minority neighborhoods. While the majority of their clients are poor, vulnerable, minority women, the clinics themselves reap huge profits from both performing the abortions and selling the fetal body parts. According to The Alan Guttmacher Institute, a group associated with Planned Parenthood, in 1985 blacks made up 12% of the population of the United States, yet accounted for over 33% of the abortions. Trends would indicate this percentage has grown even larger.

At any good library you can find the writings and correspondence of Margaret Sanger, founder of what is today Planned Parenthood, and read about Sanger�s plans for the �Negro Project��a project which anticipated the reduction of African-Americans by placing abortion clinics in their communities, because, in Sanger�s own words, they �breed carelessly and disastrously�. (Recent editions of Sanger�s works have been edited to remove much of the racist content, but older editions can still be found with some persistence.) In April of 1933, Sanger's Birth Control Review published "Eugenic Sterilization: An Urgent Need," by Ernst Rudin, Hitler's director of genetic sterilization and director of the Nazi Medical Experimentation Program. Rubin was also the founding father of the Nazi Society for Racial Hygiene. Rudin was Sanger's friend, and she retained him as an advisor.

Every three days, more African-Americans are killed by abortion than have been killed by the Ku Klux Klan in its entire history� supposedly in the name of �compassion� and �choice�. In reality, �genocide� might be a more appropriate name. If we use the abortion industry�s own figure of 1,452 abortions of black fetuses per day as an average, then well over 14 million African-Americans have been legally and efficiently slaughtered in abortion clinics in the three decades since the Supreme Court�s ruling in Roe vs. Wade. That�s more than twice the number of people murdered in Nazi death camps. The number gets exponentially larger when you take into account all of the potential African-American descendants of these aborted babies. Since 1973, abortion has effectively reduced the black population by over 25 percent.

See: www.blackgenocide.org

There is a growing African-American Pro-Life voice in this country and persons of all races are marching and speaking out as part of this new civil rights movement. Only in an unethical culture of death could the poor and disadvantaged, from all races, be encouraged by their schools, their government, and their doctors that the means to a higher quality of life includes killing their own children�their future and their hope.

12.2.2004 http://www.3streams.blogspot.com/posted by Frank Hogrebe @ 3:03 PM

Also from Cathy Horling:


"I do have a prayer request. A man that Tony had business with this week
in Texas, has a son that is very ill. I guess he was born 16 weeks ago,
with Down Syndrome, and if that was not enough, he has a hole in his heart
that is 65% of his heart.

He is scheduled for Heart Surgery on Dec 10th.
Just please pray for this family, and this tiny baby.

Their last name is Hanlan, and the baby's name is Zach.
Thank you so much."

Praise and Prayer from Gateway's accuntant, Cathy Horling!

HI,

A FEW MONTHS AGO I ASKED FOR PRAYER FOR OUR FORMER RECEPTIONIST'S SISTER
ROSE, WHO WAS RIDDEN WITH CANCEROUS TUMORS THAT WERE SO NUMEROUS THAT THE
SURGEON JUST CLOSED HER UP AND GAVE HER VIRTUALLY NO HOPE. SHE HAS BEEN
TREATED WITH CHEMOTHERAPY AND I AM ELATED TO TELL YOU THAT SHE NOW FEELS
GREAT, IS TRAVELING AROUND, AND THE TUMORS ARE SO SMALL THE DOCTORS CAN
HARDLY SEE THEM!
WE KNOW IT IS THE LORD'S HEALING TOUCH AND HIS ANSWER TO MANY PRAYERS THAT
MADE THIS POSSIBLE. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRAYERS!

I HAVE ANOTHER PRAYER REQUEST: A MINISTER AND HIS WIFE, HARRY AND DOTTIE
NICHOLS, NEED THE LORD'S HEALING TOUCH AS WELL. THEY HAVE FAITHFULLY SERVED
THE LORD IN A PRISON MINISTRY FOR MANY YEARS AND HAVE BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN
CHANGING THE LIVES OF MANY DURING THIS TIME. HARRY, WHO IS ABOUT 80, HAD A
SEVERE HEART ATTACK IN SEPTEMBER AND IS NOW ON DIALYSIS AND IS BEDRIDDEN,
AMONGST OTHER HEALTH ISSUES. HIS WIFE IS TRYING TO TAKE CARE OF HIM BUT IS
IN POOR HEALTH HERSELF. PLEASE PRAY FOR THE LORD'S HEALING HAND TO BE UPON
THEM. THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN!

GOD BLESS YOU,
CATHY

Akua Furlow, Executive Director L.E.A.R.N. (the Life Education and Resource Network) writes from Texas:


"Greetings, I am writing to ask you to pray for my brother-in-law, Michael Furlow who had surgery for a brain tumor on Wednesday. The tumor was removed and it was malignant. The doctors do not have a good prognosis, but we know The Great Physician and so I ask you to place Michael's name on your various prayer lists.

His brain is still very swollen and he has little movement on his left side. There was some concern last night that he may have a blood clot in his left leg.

Thank you for your love concern and prayers, Akua Furlow"