At 09:43 10/6/2002 -0600, M Marc wrote: > > What about China's "One Child" policy? When a couple already has a child > > (or several) and the wife gets pregnant she is required to submit to having > > an abortion. Would you sanction Civil Disobedience (perhaps sanction is too > > strong a word, maybe the term, "looking the other way" is better?) If the > > couple keeps the pregnancy secret, goes to full term and eventually bears > > the child? > > > >Not if I were a Chinese living in China I wouldn't.
There's a young woman in our building who was a second child in a Chinese family. She was sent to the provinces (read poverty) because of that to be raised by an aging grandmother. She has seen her mother but a few times in her life. The cost of such civil disobedience can be fairly high to others besides the disobedient. Somehow, she has managed to rise above the poverty (parents money? backing her) and come to America for a first class education, but the emotional scarring is quite deep. Till ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
