Gong Qifeng was seven months pregnant with her second son when she was pinned onto a hospital table in Hunan, China, and forcibly aborted as she begged for mercy. The dead baby was born after 35 hours of agony. “It has become a mental pain. I feel like a walking corpse,” Gong told AP last month. Liu […]
Suffering unlimited Recently, Xinran, the Chinese-English journalist and author of Messages from an Unknown Chinese Mother: the lives of women in contemporary China, visited Australia to talk about her new book. It is a collection of real life stories told by Chinese women forced to abandon their babies for social, political and historical reasons. You […]
Transcript of ABC’s Q&A in which precious minutes are wasted as I try to explain the term ‘skanky hos’ Melinda Tankard Reist: What would have been controversial would have been if Tony Abbott had said: “I want my daughters to be skanky hos.” Then you might have had a controversy. Satyajit Das: Sorry, what is […]
