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A young woman adopted from China now living in the United States is speaking out<\/a> about her gratitude for her birth parents’ courage in helping her to survive China’s One-Child Policy. Her experience has\u00a0led her to join the pro-life movement.<\/p>\n

Shaohannah<\/a> was born in the Guangxi autonomous region of Southern China, and told the Epoch Times that she was found abandoned in a small box when she was an infant. \u201cI knew about China\u2019s one-child policy for pretty much as long as I can remember,\u201d she said. \u201cThe pressure that they put on people to have only one child, and especially in a male-driven society, to have a boy. I knew that I was one of the many girls who was abandoned and basically left to die because of the policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though her beginnings in life could lead some to feel bitter, Shaohannah said she can understand why her parents felt forced to make the choice to abandon her.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe choices that they may have had to make might not have been the choices they would have wanted for me,” she said. But I\u2019m very grateful for the fact that they chose an option where I was able to be rescued, and live. [My birth mom] gave me this gift in allowing me to have the life I have now. I wouldn\u2019t have anything that I have right now if it was not for her, or her making the choices that she did, which I\u2019m sure were not easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

China’s One-Child Policy<\/a> was instituted over 40 years ago<\/a>, and almost immediately led to discriminatory abortions<\/a>, due to the cultural preference for boys. Chinese officials occasionally allowed certain parents to have two children if their first was a girl. Unfortunately, that meant if the second<\/em> was a girl instead of a boy, and survived pregnancy, she was likely to be abandoned, like Shaohannah, or killed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Still others were left in orphanages<\/a>, suffering under horrible, inhumane conditions. Additionally, women who became pregnant with more than the permitted number of children were forced into abortions, often violently. Today, China has the highest suicide rate<\/a> of women in the world, and violence against women<\/a> is rampant.<\/p>\n

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Shaohannah now spends her time working to save preborn children, serving as the capitol area regional coordinator for Students for Life of America (SFLA) in the Washington, D.C. area.<\/p>\n

\u201cA message that I want to convey is that life is a gift. It\u2019s a gift that I\u2019ve been given that I\u2019m allowed to continue fighting for, and see it cherished more than it was when I was born,\u201d she said. In July of 2022, she testified about her history before the D.C. Council, asking them, “How much is a child like me worth?\u201d<\/p>\n

And despite being bullied for her pro-life beliefs, she said she won’t be intimidated. \u201cI love that I get to do something that I\u2019m passionate about,” she said. “I\u2019m very blessed in that I have a wonderful team, and it\u2019s a team of people who come from different backgrounds … but we can all unite around this fact that abortion ends human life, and we\u2019re going to work to see abortion become unthinkable in our lifetime.”<\/p>\n

In China, there are hundreds of millions of missing children, thanks to abortion, and in the United States, there were an estimated 63 million abortions<\/a> committed since Roe v. Wade<\/em> was enacted in 1973. It’s numbers like those that help Shaohannah know to keep fighting.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about this culture of death. [China has] created this devaluing of life in the womb, and we have that here as well. It\u2019s not something new. To me, that\u2019s why part of this fight for preborn lives matters so much, because it\u2019s taking a stand against this culture of death … desensitization and dehumanizing,” she said.<\/p>\n

“[Roe v. Wade<\/em>] was the roadblock that we got through in order to make abortion not only illegal but also make it unthinkable. We have a poster, a blueprint,” she added. “We want women to feel supported because women don\u2019t need abortion to succeed, they don\u2019t need abortion in order to be equal. They can have their careers, their dreams, and their children too.”<\/p>\n

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