{"id":3047,"date":"2020-09-16T02:14:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T02:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2020-09-16T02:14:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T02:14:04","slug":"chinese-baby-girl-saved-from-sex-selective-abortion-at-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/chinese-baby-girl-saved-from-sex-selective-abortion-at-6-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Baby Girl Saved from Sex-Selective Abortion at 6 months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"503\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jiao.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jiao.jpg 503w, https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jiao-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><figcaption><em>\u201cJiao\u201d saved from sex-selective abortion at six months<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This adorable three-week-old baby girl is \u201cJiao\u201d (her name has been changed to protect her identity) \u2013 and she will never know how hard her brave mother fought to keep her alive.&nbsp; Jiao\u2019s mother wept as she told our undercover fieldworker her story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">When Jiao\u2019s mother was six months pregnant, she and Jiao\u2019s paternal grandmother went to the hospital together for an ultrasound to determine the baby\u2019s gender.&nbsp; Jiao\u2019s mother told us that as soon as the doctor announced the baby was a girl, her mother-in-law\u2019s expression changed from expectation to disappointment.&nbsp; Her paternal grandparents wanted a grandson intensely.&nbsp; They felt they had lost this grandson when they received the news that Jiao is a girl. Jiao\u2019s paternal grandmother began pressuring Jiao\u2019s mother to abort Jiao, just because she is a girl.&nbsp; Jiao\u2019s mother courageously refused to abort her daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">After Jiao\u2019s birth, without her mother\u2019s consent, the grandmother even found a childless couple who wanted to adopt Jiao.&nbsp; Jiao\u2019s mother refused to give her daughter up for adoption.&nbsp; She loves Jiao and is determined to raise her. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Our fieldworker stepped into this heartbreaking situation with a message of hope and support.&nbsp; We told Jiao\u2019s mother that of course, girls are as valuable as boys \u2013 something women rarely or never hear in rural China.&nbsp; We also offered her a monthly stipend for a year, to empower her to keep her daughter.&nbsp; Our encouragement and support are a light in the darkness for Jiao\u2019s mother.&nbsp; It is our joy and privilege to extend hope and a helping hand to brave women like Jiao\u2019s mother, who are fighting for the lives of their daughters in situations that seem hopeless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This adorable three-week-old baby girl is \u201cJiao\u201d (her name has been changed to protect her identity) \u2013 and she will never know how hard her brave mother fought to keep her alive.&nbsp; Jiao\u2019s mother wept as she told our undercover &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/chinese-baby-girl-saved-from-sex-selective-abortion-at-6-months\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[231,222,236,181,246],"class_list":["post-3047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-china","tag-gendercide","tag-reggie-littlejohn","tag-sex-selective-abortion","tag-son-preference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3053,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions\/3053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}