Nameless But Not Voiceless

Kim Nam Jo born in Korea writes in the poem "My Baby Has No Name Yet" translated by Ko Won:

"My baby has no name yet;
like a new-born chick or a puppy
my baby is not named yet.

What numberless texts I examined
at dawn and night and evening over again!
But not one character did I find
which is as lovely as the child.

Starry field of the sky,
or heap of pearls in the depth.
Where can the name be found, how can I?

My baby has no name yet;
like an unnamed bluebird or white flowers
from the farthest land for the first,
I have no name for this baby of ours."

Many Chinese baby boys and baby girls didn't get a name before they were forcibly aborted. Since China's one-child policy was implemented in the 1970s more than 336 million babies have been killed by abortion; that's more Chinese baby boys and baby girls have lost their lives to abortion than the combined total population of the United States of America and Australia. Many babies in countries across the globe didn't get a name before they were aborted. In America since Roe v. Wade legalized abortion 55 million babies have been killed. 

Chen Guangcheng, who became blind as a result of a childhood illness and now wears dark sunglasses, didn't start out speaking up for the unborn. A self-taught lawyer, Guangcheng, helped the disabled win public benefits and aided farmers fighting illegal land seizures. Guangcheng became internationally known for filing a 2005 law suit against a local government for forced abortions and forced sterilizations practiced as part of China’s one-child policy.

Guangcheng's lawsuit was rejected, and he was placed under house arrest in Shandong, China, with guards surrounding his house, his cell phone service cut off, access to the Internet blocked and bright lights shinning on his house at night.

Tejas is the name the Spanish gave to area that became the US state of Texas. The Spanish chose the name based on a Native American word for "friend."

Guangcheng had friends help him to escape from house arrest in April 2012 and to enter the US embassy in Beijing. A deal was worked out between China and the United States; now Guangcheng lives in New York with his wife, Yuan Weijing, and children.

On April 9, 2013, he testified before a subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee On Foreign Affairs about his family's and other people's persecution in China and other ongoing human rights abuses in China. Guangcheng gave Congress a list of 130,000 Chinese officials involved in forced abortions and forced sterilizations.

Guangcheng's house arrest in Shandong, China, meant that he could not leave his house and people couldn't come to him. During this time Actor Christian Bale tried to visit the activist to publicize his plight, but was prohibited by plain clothes Chinese security.

Andrew Jacobs of The New York Times with others attempted to visit Guangcheng when he was under house arrest. Jacobs was met by a man who swatted at his car with a broom and called for back up who detained Jacobs. The security back up took the reporters' camera and deleted their images. When Jacobs was driving out of town, he was followed by a car with the license plate covered over by paper.

Guangcheng's nephew, Chen Kegui, has been in jail after using knives to fend off local officials who burst into Kegui's home after Guangcheng's escape.

Chen Guangcheng said, "Recently, many friends and neighbors who I have been in touch with by phone have been taken into custody by the authorities for questioning. They have been threatened and made to describe what our conversations have been about," (January 29, 2013,  Reuters article entitled "Blind dissident urges global pressure on China over rights" by Paul Eckert.)

When asked about having regrets on speaking out about forced abortions and forced sterilizations in China, Guangcheng told Anderson Cooper of CNN through an interpreter, "I have no regrets."

During an April 8, 2013, George W. Bush Institute interview Guangcheng recommended that Americans listen to various Chinese media to learn the ways that freedom of speech, the right to vote and the right to protest are missing in China and human rights violations are being committed.

"As long as there is one ... oppressed human being in this world the struggle la lucha continua," says Dr. Georgia McMurray, educator, writer, activist who had the progressively degenerative muscle disorder Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.

Guangcheng recommended in the George W. Bush Institute interview that once people are informed about the situation in China they can show support for life, freedom and human rights by wearing dark sunglasses like he wears, blogging or something else according to ability.

"Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman," says Marian Anderson, singer and civil rights advocate.

Educator and Writer Elie Wiesel says, "Remember: silence helps the killer, never his victims."

No one healthy wants to be harmed or killed. Jesus Christ teaches in Matthew 7:12 Complete Jewish Bible, "“Always treat others as you would like them to treat you; that sums up the teaching of the Torah and the Prophets."

A Twi African proverb says, "Love is the greatest of all virtues."
  
God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Ghost (1 X 1 X 1 = 1) is able to give us to strength to speak and to act in love. When we become creyentes (believers) we give up our life and God's life lives through us. Galatians 2:20 English Standard Version Bible says, "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."