US vs. Them

That's US as in United States versus other countries. Every now and again I'm going to post an US vs. Them tidbit to highlight why America is superior to all other countries that are not democracies (and many of those that are). Such an idea should be "no duh", but considering how much "hate America first" garbage gets promoted by the "non-biased" American media, I believe an antidote is needed for that mushy moral equivalence.

In the ring today is US vs China:

Hundreds of women in Shandong Province forced to have abortions
(China Information Center (CIC), 5/13/2005)

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(From a CIC correspondent in China) Township authorities have forced hundreds of women in Chewang Township, Cangshan County, Shandong Province to undergo abortions since March of this year. Many of these women have been beaten and illegally detained for resisting the authorities, and this mistreatment even resulted in the death of one woman.

Around June of last year, officials of the CCP Committee and government of Chewang Township traveled to every part of the township to persuade couples who had only one child to have a second child. For each second birth, couples were required to pay the government 4,500-6,000 yuan as a "birth guarantee fee". By March 2005, the township authorities had collected over 20 million yuan.

In late March of this year, when new township authorities were appointed to their posts, the first thing they did was to force the pregnant women who had paid the "birth guarantee fee" to the previous authorities to have abortions. Hundreds of women were captured and driven to undergo abortions by force. Even those women who had been pregnant for eight months were not spared. According to statistics, more than 160 women who were eight months pregnant were forced to have abortions.