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thirteen-year-old girl tative Chris Smith and others, Reggie notes. "Or
named Anni is seated at succeeded in bringing Anni and she could have
Athe piano on the stage at her sister to the U.S. Praise God! been selectively
Carnegie Hall. She is wearing a Reggie and her husband took the aborted because
neat white dress, and she is girls in to raise them as their own she is a girl, as
playing brilliantly. The crowd daughters. happens to so
applauds enthusiastically. m a n y s e c o n d
But this is far from the whole d a u g h t e r s i n
That was one month ago. Three story. You see, if the Chinese China."
years ago, it was a different story. Government had had its way, Anni
Then, Anni was huddled in a jail would never have been born. Anni Today, Reggie
cell in China. She was kept there was the second child at a time says, "We are so
overnight without food, water, or when China's One Child Policy proud of Anni.
even access to a toilet. was in brutal effect. Millions of She is flourishing, both as a every day - in America, in China,
Chinese women were forced to pianist and as a top student. Her and all over the world - when a
The Chinese Government had undergo abortions for the "crime" story is an example for all those small life is snuffed out. We lose
locked her up as retaliation for her of expecting a second child. who struggle against the odds. children who might have become
father's activities protesting Through our help and her own pianists, medical researchers,
China's repressive policies. Anni escaped this fate thanks to hard work, Anni is a witness to the farmers, soldiers, artists, and
the courage of her parents. As hope of a new beginning and to mums and dads themselves.
The story of how Anni got from Reggie posted at the Women's the beauty, brilliance, and infinite
there to Carnegie Hall is a miracle Rights Without Frontiers website, value of Chinese girls." We'll never know what the world
- one that teaches us how much "Family Planning Police came has lost thanks to the millions of
God values every human life! daily to pressure Anni's mother to Anni herself gives all the credit to children who were killed through
abort her unborn baby. Anni's God - both for her birth and for all abortion.
Anni's father, Zhang Lin, is a father was able to get permission her accomplishments. "God did a
nuclear physicist who was for Anni's birth only after a long total miracle, because I never But you and I can work to save
himself sent to prison. To get his and difficult struggle." could have made it without His other babies - all of them with
daughter out of China, he contac- help," Anni says. "Winning the great value in God's eyes.
ted Reggie Littlejohn, founder of Without their courage, "Anni competition to play in Carnegie Children just like Anni...
Wo m e n ' s R i g h t s Wi t h o u t could easily have been one of the Hall was 1 percent me and 99
Frontiers. 400 million lives 'prevented' by percent God!" http://www.prophecynewswatch.
China's One Child Policy of com/article.cfm?recent_news_id
Reggie, along with U.S. Represen- coercive population control, Anni is a reminder of what we lose =925#MVDYbFoCMLzz04uj.99