Chinese Woman Gives Birth to Septuplets, Has One Week To Choose

This is a 10-year old article, but...did things really happen this way? Would love to receive a confirmation from our Chinese members...


(January 15th, 1998)

SHANGHAI, CHINA—In the second such documented case ever, Jinan Huang, a 33-year-old Shanghai woman, gave birth to septuplets Monday.

Jinan, who is in stable condition following the 31-hour delivery, has been given one week by government officials to decide which child she will keep.

"My husband and I have not decided for certain," said Jinan, speaking to reporters from her hospital bed shortly after the miraculous birth. "But we are very much considering keeping the second-born boy. He is the heaviest and, therefore, the most likely to survive and tend to us in our old age."

"We definitely do not want either of the two girls," Jinan's husband Lin said. "Of that much we are certain."

The six children not selected will, in accordance with Chinese multiple-birth law, be thrown off a mountaintop.

Since China's one-child-per-family law went into effect in 1983, more than 65 million multiple-birth babies have been put to death in the country.

Jinan, who said she had tried to have a baby for years, vehemently denied taking fertility drugs, the use of which is punishable by death in China. "I do not know how this happened," she said. "To my fellow citizens and our nation's leaders, I wish to apologize for this shameful and irresponsible multiple birth."

Just ask your local Chinese friends and you will know that it is bull shit. Under the one child policy, many people can have two children, for example if the parents are the only child of the family. Even if they are not the above case but want to have more than one child, what they need is to pay a fine. If one of the parents is from a minority ethnic groups, they can have more than one child. In some remote villages, the local officials may abuse their power in birth control policy, and the  uneducated  farmers in rare case may kill their baby if it was a girl because they like to have boys, but it is against the law. But killing babies in big cities like Shanghai ?  No way.

This is a 10-year old article, but...did things really happen this way? Would love to receive a confirmation from our Chinese members...


(January 15th, 1998)

SHANGHAI, CHINAIn the second such documented case ever, Jinan Huang, a 33-year-old Shanghai woman, gave birth to septuplets Monday.

Jinan, who is in stable condition following the 31-hour delivery, has been given one week by government officials to decide which child she will keep.

"My husband and I have not decided for certain," said Jinan, speaking to reporters from her hospital bed shortly after the miraculous birth. "But we are very much considering keeping the second-born boy. He is the heaviest and, therefore, the most likely to survive and tend to us in our old age."

"We definitely do not want either of the two girls," Jinan's husband Lin said. "Of that much we are certain."

The six children not selected will, in accordance with Chinese multiple-birth law, be thrown off a mountaintop.

Since China's one-child-per-family law went into effect in 1983, more than 65 million multiple-birth babies have been put to death in the country.

Jinan, who said she had tried to have a baby for years, vehemently denied taking fertility drugs, the use of which is punishable by death in China. "I do not know how this happened," she said. "To my fellow citizens and our nation's leaders, I wish to apologize for this shameful and irresponsible multiple birth."

.......its an old topic ....but still.....sad.....all the spectators stuck in rooms  will av a read...will help understand chinese n y they act the way they do....jeez!