Monday, September 10, 2007

Remnants of the Chinese One Child Rule

I have no comment on this story, except that it is amazing that it has taken this long for her to have health problems relating to 23 one inch needles being stuck in her body. I can't imagine wanting to have a boy so badly either...

Chinese surgeons will try to remove 23 needles from a woman that doctors believe may have been embedded under her skin by grandparents trying to kill her so that a baby boy might take her place. Qu said doctors believe the woman’s grandparents may have inserted the needles long ago, hoping she would die and her parents might have a boy in her place. China limits most families to just one child, although rural Chinese may be allowed to have a second if their first is a girl, subject to the payment of fines.

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