When abortion isn't a choice

Two days before President Obama was slated to leave for Asia (including China) to discuss economic issues, Congressional members of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission heard evidence of Chinese pregnant women essentially being hunted down and forced to submit to surgery or induced labor. Technically, it is illegal in China to kill a baby, one is relieved to learn, but family-planning imperatives sometimes prevail. According to a 2009 State Department report, monetary incentives and penalties are attached to population targets, creating what amounts to bounties on the unborn. Kathleen Parker