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Attention Euthanasists! I have some URGENT NEWS, thanks to our friend Karin
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Spaink <kspaink@xs4all.nl>, who intercepted the following article in one of her
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news groups:
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The Electronic Telegraph 13 April 1995 WORLD NEWS
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Chinese trade in human fetuses for consumption is uncovered
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By Yojana Sharma in Hong Kong and Graham Hutchings in Beijing
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ABORTED human fetuses intended for human consumption are being sold for as
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little as =A31 in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, according to reports in Hong
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Kong yesterday.
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The Eastern Express newspaper said journalists from its sister publication,
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Eastweek, had gone to Shenzhen, across the border from Hong Kong, to see if
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fetuses were being sold. Shenzhen hospitals carried out 7,000 terminations last
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year, including a number on Hong Kong women seeking cheap abortions.
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At the state-run Shenzhen Health Centre for Women and Children, a female
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doctor was asked for a fetus. The next day, she handed the reporter a
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"fist-sized glass bottle stuffed with thumb-sized fetuses".
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The doctor was quoted as saying: "There are 10 fetuses here, all aborted
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this morning. You can take them. We are a state hospital and don't charge.
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Normally we doctors take them home to eat - all free. Since you don't look
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well, you can take them."
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At private clinics, aborted fetuses could be obtained for between =A31 and
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=A31.75, the newspaper said. There was no evidence, however, that fetuses were
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being sold in large quantities to middlemen for sale in Hong Kong.
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Zou Qin, a doctor working at the Luo Hu Clinic in Shenzhen, said the
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fetuses were "nutritious" and claimed to have eaten 100 herself in the past six
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months.
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She said the "best" were first-born males from young women. "We don't carry
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out abortions just to eat the fetuses," she said, but added that the fetuses
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would be "wasted if not eaten". The newspaper said the fetuses were eaten as a
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soup, together with pork and ginger.
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A woman doctor, referred to only as Wang, from the Sin Hua Clinic,
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Shenzhen, was quoted as saying the fetuses were "even better than placentae" in
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nutritional value. "They can make your skin smoother, your body stronger and
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are good for kidneys," she said.
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Dr Warren Lee, president of the Hong Kong Nutrition Association, said:
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"Eating fetuses is a traditional Chinese medicine deeply founded in folklore."
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However, he considered the alleged properties of fetuses little more than
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old-wives' tales. Others said the practice was abhorrent.
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Dr. Cao Shilin, of the Hospital of Chinese medicine in Shenzhen, said
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aborted embryos were taken to factories where they were used in the production
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of medicines. She did not know if any were sold to private individuals, but
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said there was little medical value in embryos older than eight weeks when, in
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Chinese terms, they were classified as fetuses.
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She had not heard of fetuses being sold in Shenzhen, but warned that eating
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them could be dangerous, given the strong medicines used in abortions.
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A doctor in Beijing, who declined to be named, said parts of fetuses would
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have medical value, singling out the liver as something that could help to cure
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anaemia. But hospitals in Beijing had ovens for the destruction of aborted
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fetuses, and she had not heard that they had been sold for individual
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consumption.
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The sale and consumption of placentae is common in China, though frowned
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upon by the authorities. Only those with good connections to the medical world
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can obtain placentae, which cost between =A32.50 and =A33 each.
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According to traditional Chinese medicine, it is regarded as particularly
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beneficial for a nursing mother to eat her own placenta because it improves her
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milk. It is usually drunk in the form of a soup.
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Sounds delicious! And while we're on the subject, I'd like to share a little
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correspondence with you. We get a lot of peculiar mail here, but this one
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really took the cake.
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<hoffmann@macc.wisc.edu> wrote:
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>>>>
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Congratulations on your hilariously facetious portrayal of abortion as a means
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of population control. The positions stated on your Web page show to what
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absurdities abortion could lead. It simply devalues man to nothing. I hope
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this is blunt enough for all those pro-aborts out there. Have a blessed
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Easter!
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-Dominik
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Looks like the joke's on you, Dominik. It must be tough getting through life
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with the cranial capacity of a chipmunk. We are pro-abortion. Shall I say it
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again? Pro-abortion, Dominik, as in sucking human fetuses out of vaginas with
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a bloody great vacuum. Now Dominik, you're not a vegetarian, are you? Does
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the thought of eating flesh bother you? I hope not, because we think pro-life
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cretins like you should be munching on those fetuses, Dominik. That's right,
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not only are we pro-abortion, we are also pro-cannibalism, as you would have
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discovered if you were capable of comprehending anything other than the
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Reader's Digest edition of the bible. And I'll bet you do read the bible,
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Dominik, don't you, so you'll be delighted to know that we're also pro-sodomy.
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Yes indeed, the only thing we'd like better than watching you dine on mangled
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human fetuses would be watching you get fucked up the ass with a giant rosary,
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while our entire board of directors take turns peeing in your mouth. Of
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course you'd probably rather kill yourself than submit to such an ungodly
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invasion of your sacred sphincter, and that's just fine with us. I hate to be
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pushy, but it's time to go. We'll all be much better off. Eat a queer fetus
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for Jesus, Dominik, and then SAVE THE PLANET--KILL YOURSELF!
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Rev. Chris Korda The Church of Euthanasia
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