The sad case of surrogate mothers in China

In many countries across the world, thanks to the miracles of modern science, couples who are incapable of bearing children often use surrogate mothers to have their babies. Apparently this is becoming common in China too with the rising affluence among its young rich. However unlike most countries China holds an iron fist when it comes to birth of children and I was surprised to read the draconian measures being taken to control their birth,

In the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, three young surrogate first-time mothers were discovered by authorities hiding in a communal flat. Soon afterwards, district family planning and security officers broke into the flat, bundled them into a van and drove them to a district hospital where they were manhandled into a maternity ward, the mothers recounted to Reuters. "I was crying 'I don't want to do this'," said a young woman called Xiao Hong, who was pregnant with four-month-old twins. "But they still dragged me in and injected my belly with a needle," the 20-year-old told Reuters. ... Another of the surrogates, who said she'd come from a village in Sichuan province, recounted how officers made her take pills then surgically removed her three-month-old fetus while she was unconscious.

Again I don't have statistics currently about how widespread the crackdown on these cases, but hopefully will be able to provide some soon.
Very sad but I'm sure something like this will not be reported in the Chindu which publishes only the happy tales of the Chinese.

Ram's Lecture on Wonderful Human Rights in Tibet

Ram apparently is now lecturing people on human rights in Tibet. So what does he have to say?

Tibet’s all-round development over some years has raised the living standards of its people, which by itself constituted progress in human rights...He said the per capita net income of the Tibetan people had maintained double-digit growth in each of the past five years, and stood at 2,788 yuan ($398) last year.

...He observed that the railway line may have had some negative impact on the region’s environment and wildlife, but that some accounts on this aspect were exaggerated. Besides, the central government was working for the protection of the region’s environment with an allocation of 1.5 billion yuan. The money was intended to be used for garbage and sewage treatment and to build 33 special passages for Tibetan antelopes and other wild animals.

Has it not been said by philosophers galore that money alone does not bring happiness? If money was all that mattered, there would have been no Osama Bin Laden for why would someone born with a silver spoon give it all up and shuttle between caves under the cover of darkness all to wage war against a far superior enemy? For the same reason. People are more than money-making robots. They are living entities with aspirations, dreams and fond hopes. Of the many things they seek, the freedom to speak freely and practice their beliefs without persecution has been a paramount one throughout the length of history. Indeed, experience has shown that people who do not have to worry about their basic requirements such as daily bread, clothing and shelter take more, not less interest in such abstract considerations. For people enjoying prosperity, moral and emotional security replaces material security as their primary concern. If Ram believes that building better garbage treatment plants will address popular anger, he could not be more eggheaded about this issue.