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To: tejek who wrote (231729)	5/6/2005 6:58:14 AM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571929

yes, you and Amy would love China. "Prisoners" are executed for their organs, and unborn children are slaughtered just because the family wanted a boy instead of a girl. Great place; you and Amy would love it.... ycsi.net More transplantable organs are available in China because more people are being executed. This year, 5,000 prisoners or more are likely to be put to death during a nationwide anti-crime drive. Many of them will be stripped of their vital organs, though there is no available data to say how many. Government policy allows the harvesting if the prisoner or the prisoner's family has given written consent, or if the body is not claimed after execution. In practice, though, the rules are often ignored and illegal harvesting tolerated. ifeminists.net Generally speaking, the Chinese have favored sons over daughters, partly because the culture has undervalued women. But there are also practical reasons. In rural areas where hard labor means survival, sons are usually stronger. Moreover, daughters leave home upon marriage and their adult labor enriches the husband's family. Thus, when rural families are forced to limit their families, they may act to ensure the birth of sons. If an ultrasound reveals that a fetus is female, the woman may abort. (Improved technology has also contributed to the sex imbalance.) If a female infant is born, she may be killed or sent away for foreign adoption. You people really are going where no one has gone before. That's why you are in the minority, and that's a good thing....