Friday, January 16, 2009

What's Chinese for Catch-22?

Another tip to the Corner for this link from Mark Steyn:

This is a helluva story on some of the grislier consequences on the ChiComs' (demographically disastrous) one-child laws:

A court in central China has sentenced a woman to death for hiring someone to strangle her 9-year-old son so she could have another child with her new husband without violating population laws, a court official and reports said Friday.

And this next sentence is headspinning:

Li initially received a death sentence suspended for two years because she had suffered from depression after having two abortions due to the rules against her bearing another child, the reports said. Such sentences are often commuted to life in prison.

Check out the whole post. Steyn updated it with a reader comment that sums up the whole sad, Orwellian truth.



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