Disgusting… Liberal Media Omits Chinese Dissident Chen Guangcheng’s Pro-Life Past From Their Reports
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 5:26 AM
Pro-life activist Chen Guangcheng with his family (God Reports)
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng was jailed for exposing the Chi-com’s systematic use of forced abortion and involuntary sterilization to enforce its “One Child Policy.”
Via God Reports:
In the astonishment surrounding Chen Guangcheng’s extraordinary escape from house arrest, let us not forget why he was arrested: in 2006 Chen exposed the Chinese government’s systematic, massive use of forced abortion and involuntary sterilization to enforce its “One Child Policy.” Women’s Rights Without Frontiers (WRWF) obtained a copy of Chen’s field notes and we released the first English translation of these notes at a Congressional Hearing on December 6, 2011. You can read The Chen Guangcheng Report here.
A member of Chen’s team, human rights attorney Teng Biao, drafted this 2005 investigative report into coercive family planning in Linyi City, Shandong Province. The report contains extensive witness statements from cases Chen and his team were investigating before Chen was jailed. In the report are detailed accounts regarding:
• a woman forcibly aborted and sterilized at seven months;
• villagers sleeping in fields to evade Family Planning Officials;
• Family Planning Officials who broke three brooms over the head of an elderly man;
• Family Planning Officials who forced a grandmother and her brother to beat each other; and
• The use of quota systems and the practice of “implication” – the detention, fining and torture of the extended family of One Child Policy “violators.”The Chen Guangcheng report makes clear: the spirit of the Red Guards lives on in China’s Family Planning death machine.
But the liberal media will not report the truth on Chen.
The Examiner reported:
Chen Guangcheng is a Chinese “dissident” and a “lawyer” who was jailed by the Chinese government and held in house arrest after his sentence, until he escaped over the weekend, presumably to U.S. custody.
You’ll learn all that from this 1300-word Washington Post story today, but you’ll never learn why the Communist Chinese regime wanted to silence him — that he has exposed the horrors of China’s one-child policy, including forced abortions and forced sterilizations.
Honestly. Search the article. “Abortion” never appears. Nor does “one-child” “family-planning,” or “sterilization.”
Of the five Post news articles I found discussing Chen, only one of them has the word “abortion.”
The Post wasn’t the only one to make this weird omission. CBS News’s Norah O’Donnell doesn’t mention abortion, sterilization, or the one-child policy at all.
Others simply buried this detail, making sure to describe Chen generically as a “legal activist.”
If the American media weren’t so corrupt, the fact that Chen is a pro-life activist would be openly discussed in recent reports on his escape from house arrest. But the American media is corrupt and biased, so you’ll only hear half of the story on pro-life activist Chen Guangcheng.
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jennifer commented:
Seems like our MSM has more in common with the government of China than America.
rammer12 commented:
Jim – really? You’re surprised they don’t report his Pro-Life views? C’mon man, you know the game. IF IT DOESN’T FIT THE NARRATIVE THEN IT DOESN’T GET COVERAGE!
Seriously obvious when they use the word ‘dissident’ within the first 30 words of the story which tells you how they feel about him.
In their minds he is a ‘dissident’ for breaking from the pro-abortion agenda.
Best part in watching the MSM is watching them be perplexed in reporting this story at all.
wodun commented:
MSNBC describes him as a woman’s rights activist. Were he to live in the USA, they would call him a misogynist from the patriarchy waging a war on women.
Finncrisp commented:
Perfect example of exactly how “state run” the media is today. They undoubtedly must submit their copy to our Ministry of Propaganda for approval before release. Just like Pravda. It is going to take some time to unpeel this onion.
End Communism in the US ! Let no Democrat be elected. Let’s be rid of this plague on our country.
Anyone who votes for one Democrat is an accomplice to our demise.
valerie commented:
When the Roe v. Wade decision was first published, people read the part about the consequences of a grant of power to intervene in a decision. That section pointed out that, if we grant the government the ability to decide against abortions, we were necessarily granting the ability to coerce them.
At the time, writers blustered that this could never happen. And then, the Chinese enacted their population control measures.
The day is going to come when Catholics in the United States will see Roe v. Wade as a defense against regulations designed to coerce abortions (and euthanasia).
maryd commented:
The MSM is nothing more than marxist propaganda anymore.
Dave in NYC commented:
Actually, it sounds more like Chen is “pro-choice”. According to what I have read, he opposes compulsory sterilization and state-mandated abortion.* If you have any documentation to back up the claim that he is also opposed to a woman’s right to choose, please post it. Otherwise, it does not seem that he is “anti-choice” (or “pro-life”).
Chen is a very brave man who has put his life at risk to help others. Please do not try to co-opt his struggle for the sake of making a cheap domestic political point.
* He has also campaigned on behalf of the disabled, and victims of pollution from a local factory.
burt commented:
In New York City 60% of the black babies are not given a chance.
J. W. commented:
#8 Dave in NYC: “a woman’s right to choose” — You can drop the euphemism here. We all know that you’re referring to killing unborn children, so you might as well just say it.
owl commented:
How dumb can this guy be about media? He should have said he was really an escaped prisoner from one of Bush’s prisons and was abused. Then let the celebrations begin.
The old media and Obama are very selective in their superior morality and which women qualify. You never heard a word when the Afgan girls went to school for the first time. Nary a peep.
When the people took to the streets in Iran and begged? Nope. He took after Egypt’s head.
All those super duper morals. He doesn’t waterboard. He just kills everything and any little kid on the block. No capture for him. No siree. These people have morals.
I do not expect to hear much about the Chinese war on women. Babies are not as high on their moral ladder as a supposedly abused head chopper.
Dave in NYC commented:
#11 – whatever you want to call it, there is no evidence that Chen opposes it. I repeat, do not try to co-opt his cause to score a petty political point unless you have the evidence to back it up. And in any case, please do not insult this brave man by calling him “dumb”, as #12 did.
tommy mc donnell commented:
call american tass to ask them why they ommitted this information. better still call the corporations that sponsor american tass and ask them.
kathteach commented:
The Obama show – West Wing. This is yet another one of this administration’s re-enactments of West Wing episodes.
Good Grief!
And great post Jim. We wouldn’t want to know about any politically incorrect information.
Orwell is here and….man – do I wish Brietbart was here to fight him :- ) Thanks goodness you do, Jim. You are an heir apparent – truly.
Zhuren commented:
Perhaps you were/are reading media reports biased, but here in the Middle Kingdom, we read the accurate reportage of La Monde, Christian Science Monitor, the Guardian, New York Times, Toronto Star and the Internet. Perhaps you should do the same. Written in extreme kindness and courtesy.
Leigh from CT commented:
Really? Why can’t pro-lifers understand pro-choice DOES NOT equal pro-abortion. A women has a right to choose to have an abortion or not, some do not, but having the choice is what makes it a human rights issue. If anything, Chen is extremely pro-choice…the choice to not be forcibly sterilized by a authoritative mandate from the state. There’s ZERO evidence he’s pro-life, his fighting cause is to not have forced abortions, not abortions in general.
Thinking…you all should try it.
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