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Shouldn't Joe Biden Be Denouncing China's Policy That Throws Away Girls?
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Aug 23, 2011 04:04pm |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Author | Penny Young Nance |
| Media | TV News - FOX News |
| News Date | Tuesday, August 23, 2011 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "Imagine if the United States federal government, overwhelmed by massive debt and entitlement programs, instituted a policy, much like China's, under which couples are only allowed to have one child. Imagine the money they would save over the long run — heck, in 70 years, Medicare payments would shrink to a fraction of what they are today, and Medicaid could finally reimburse doctors at reasonable rates.
Sounds ridiculous, right? Not to Vice President Joe Biden. In fact, he declared Sunday on a trip to China that he “fully understands” China’s one-child policy and that the United States should learn “together” from what China has done in population control to help control their debt.
Biden has perhaps committed his most insulting gaffe yet.
The vice president, supposedly a Roman Catholic, is pro-choice. But the real rub here is his complete lack of compassion for the plight of Chinese women. China uses forced abortion and coercion to make sure families have no more than one child in most circumstances. Chinese families are threatened with loss of work, detention, and human rights violations if they dare to want a second child.
In Chinese culture, it is still considered more preferable to have a boy than a girl, so girls are often aborted.
Thanks to families all over the world, including many in the United States, girls who do manage to survive in China are adopted. But many just aren’t that lucky and succumb to the “enforcement” of a barbaric policy." |
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