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China - Woman
Resists Both Forced Abortion & Gendercide to Give Birth to Daughter
Eu-Meh - One
Month Old
By Reggie
Littlejohn, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers – September 11, 2015
CHINA. This beautiful baby, “Eu-Meh” might never
have had the chance to draw breath on this earth, just because she is a girl.
She comes from a very poor farming family in the Chinese countryside, where
life is harsh.
Eu-Meh’s parents did not have a birth permit, so
her mother’s pregnancy was illegal. Her mother hid from the family planning
police. If she were caught, her mother would have to pay a huge fine or face
forced abortion.
But the main danger to Eu-Meh’s life was not the
Family Planning Police. It was her own grandparents on her father’s side.
Eu-Meh’s grandparents told Eu-Meh’s mother to
abort her, when they found out that she was pregnant with a girl. They told
Eu-Meh’s mother that this little girl would consume milk and food that should
go to her grandparents. They would have been happy, however, to keep a baby
boy.
When Women’s Rights Without Frontiers learned about
Eu-Meh, our undercover fieldworker went to her mother with a strong message of
hope. We told her that girls are just as precious as boys, and encouraged
Eu-Meh’s mother not to abort her. Through our “Save a Girl” campaign, we
offered her monthly stipends for a year, to empower her to give life to Eu-Meh
and care for her. It took Eu-Meh’s mother time to finally decide not to abort
Eu-Meh, because she was afraid of her mother-in-law.
Eu-Meh – One Year Old
After Eu-Meh was born, with tears in her eyes,
her mother told our fieldworker that she did not realize how much she would
love her daughter before she saw her. Her mother-in-law did not want Eu-Meh’s
mother to breastfeed her, so that she could go to Shanghai to work soon after
Eu-Meh was born. With financial support from WRWF, Eu-Meh’s mother was able to
resist this pressure from her mother-in-law. She was grateful to be able to
stay home with Eu-Meh, breastfeed her and spend time just loving her precious,
new daughter, who is now a healthy and happy 1-year-old!
Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women’s Rights
Without Frontiers, stated, “It is an honor to support brave women like Eu-Meh’s
mother, who was able to resist both the Family Planning Police and her own
mother-in-law. Women like this deserve our help, and so do their precious daughters.
Please help us be a voice for the voiceless!”
Learn more about how you can help to save girls in China here: http://womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=give