By Sarah Zagorski<\/p>\n
Partially republished with permission from LifeNews.com. Link to full article at the end.<\/address>\nThe Shanghi<\/a> List<\/a> has reported that a 44-year-old pregnant woman has aborted her baby because her 13-year-old threatened to commit suicide. <\/span>Last year, Xiao and her husband decided that they wanted to have another child after China \u201crelaxed\u201d its one-child policy; but their daughter, Wen Wen, didn\u2019t respond well to the news of another baby.<\/p>\n Xiao said, \u201cAfter Wen Wen [Xiao\u2019s first child] learned about my pregnancy, she often said she would jump to her death from a building if we kept the baby.\u201d Tragically, when the couple spotted cut marks on their daughters arm they decided to abort their baby because they were afraid her threats were real.<\/p>\n In 2013, the U.S. Department of State\u2019s Trafficking in Person (TIP) report revealed that China has refused to acknowledge that its policy is creating a gender imbalance and fueling trafficking.<\/p>\n Reggie Littlejohn, the president of Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers, explained that the brutal One-Child Policy is largely to blame for many of the problems in China.<\/p>\n She said, \u201cThe One Child Policy is the driving force in trafficking. Couples who do not have a son want to obtain a boy through trafficking. Couples who already have a son may want to traffic a girl into their family, to ensure that their son will have a bride when he grows up. In China, the marriage market is on the road to collapse. Because of the pronounced gender imbalance caused by gendercide \u2013 the selective abortion of baby girls \u2014 there are currently about 37 million more males living in China than females.\u201d<\/p>\n View original article at LifeNews.com: http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2015\/01\/21\/chinese-mom-has-abortion-because-her-only-child-threatened-suicide-if-she-had-another-baby\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Sarah Zagorski Partially republished with permission from LifeNews.com. Link to full article at the end. The Shanghi List has reported that a 44-year-old pregnant woman has aborted her baby because her 13-year-old threatened to commit suicide. Last year, Xiao … Continue reading