What Even a Blind Man Can See

This year’s Oregon Right to Life’s conference had as its keynote speaker Reggie Littlejohn, president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers. Ms Littlejohn’s keynote address was, unbeknownst to its listeners, on the cutting edge of the recent international crisis between China and the US.. In her talk, she detailed for the attendees the brutality of China’s forced abortion policy. Her group’s mission is to tell the world of the terror undergone by Chinese women who break the country’s one child policy: beatings, forced abortion, fines, brutality to the woman’s extended family, and many times, death itself.

While Ms. Littlejohn is on the outside of China speaking out against the Chinese regime’s brutal policy, Chen Guangcheng, the subject of the international diplomatic crisis, is on the inside of China speaking out. Or perhaps I should say, was speaking out. In 2006, Chen, an activist lawyer, issued a report on his investigation of China’s one-child policy and how it subjected women to all kinds of horrors.

Although Chen was blind, he was able to see the evil of how the Chinese government was carrying out its one-child policy. Although he was blind, he could see how the “family planning police” controlled town residents by their terrorist tactics.  And although he was blind, he was willing to stand up for women and their unborn children against the world’s largest Communist government.

Large Communist governments do not let their citizens get away with exposing any truth that puts them in bad light, so Chen was seized, jailed, and brutalized. He was eventually returned home to remain under house arrest with his wife and child. His house arrest was anything but gentle, and he continued to be brutalized.

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