Friday, January 16, 2009

The Right to Choose   [Mark Steyn]

This is a helluva story on some of the grislier consequences on the ChiComs' (demographically disastrous) one-child laws:

A court in central China has sentenced a woman to death for hiring someone to strangle her 9-year-old son so she could have another child with her new husband without violating population laws, a court official and reports said Friday.

And this next sentence is headspinning:

Li initially received a death sentence suspended for two years because she had suffered from depression after having two abortions due to the rules against her bearing another child, the reports said. Such sentences are often commuted to life in prison.

But the higher court found that her depression was not directly related to her crime.

Ah. As a reader adds:

So, let's see. This woman is to be put to death, because she paid someone to strangle her nine year old son, by a state that forced her to abort her other pregnancies. It's hard to be shocked at the heartlessness and depravity of someone forced to live in a society in which heartlessness and moral depravity have the force of law.

01/16 02:29 PMShare