From the Wall Street Journal, China realizes infanticide isn't such a good idea.
As the father of a girl from China, I welcome any attempts to curb the number of abortions done to girls in China, and especially the outlawing of abortions done for the purpose of sexual selection. The issue of providing taxpayers' money to the UN for family planning, which President Bush has stopped, is also a huge factor in my vote. I will be voting for President Bush, and for Representative Chris Smith this November.
A couple of weeks ago I was with my daughter, Rebecca, at a local playground, and a young girl, maybe about ten years old, started talking with me about her:
is she really our daughter? yes she is.
Why does she look different? she only looks different because she was born in China and we adopted her.
Do you know her birth parents? No, her birth parents gave her up
That's terrible! They could have done worse - they could have killed her, but instead they put her in a place where she would be found and cared for; and we've forgiven them for leaving her. We choose to be thankful for the gift they gave to us instead.
How could you forgive them? Well, forgiving them isn't the same as saying what they did was right, and like I said, they could have done worse. Instead they gave her to us, without even knowing it.
If I could have talked with her longer, I would have liked to told her about Joseph and how he was sold into slavery by his own brothers, yet that egregious act was used by God to save his family. What often looks awful to us, God uses for a greater good. Maybe we'll run into her again. She seemed to be moved by seeing our daughter and learning about what is happening over there.