Posted on 08/25/2004 4:23:08 PM PDT by Lorianne
BEIJING - A Chinese woman facing possible execution for trafficking heroin was forced by police to have an abortion so she could be punished, a report said yesterday.
Ma Weihua, 29, was arrested in January by police in Lanzhou, the capital of the north-western province of Gansu, for transporting 1.6kg of heroin in a vest, the Beijing Youth Daily said.
She had agreed to help a friend take the drugs from Urumqi, the capital of neighbouring Xinjiang, to Lanzhou for 5,000 yuan (S$1,000), the newspaper report said.
The amount of drugs she was carrying was enough to make her punishable by execution under China's strict criminal code.
During a routine physical examination in jail, doctors found she was about 50 days' pregnant.
Ma wanted to keep the baby, but the anti-drug task force at Lanzhou's Chengguan police substation signed a consent form on her behalf ordering an abortion in February.
Ma's lawyer Weng Weihua argued for a lighter sentence during trial in the Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court last month, noting that Chinese law exempts people under age 18 and pregnant women from capital punishment.
As another pointed out, the War On Drugs faces the Pro-Lifers. Naturally, the War On Drugs wins.
Because, I guess, we can't have drugs, it's bad for the children, so, we kill a child to properly discipline a criminal adult, keeping in mind, of course, that it's for the children, in the final analysis.
It might sound confusing - have a Drug Warrior explain it to you.
Hey, who are we to question the reasons behind these governments we willingly do business with?....
Let's sell them some more space technology...oh, wait, we need to wait until we have a dem prez.
I heard china was cracking down on drugs, espcially heroin, but damn, that seemes excesive.
Perhaps someone can tell me if 1.6kg of heroin is? Is it 100000 hits by a novice, 100 by an experiance user what? A better gauge might be the street value? $10,000? $250,000? more?
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