In 2000, 4-year-old Qian Hongyan lost both of her legs in a car accident in China.
Her family was too poor to afford prosthetic legs, so they found another way to help her move.
They cut a basketball in half, placed it under her body, and gave her wooden handles so she could push herself forward with her hands.
For years, Qian moved around like that.
In 2005, photos of her using the basketball went viral in China, and she became known as the “basketball girl.”
The attention changed her life.
She was later taken to Beijing, where she received free prosthetic legs and began learning how to walk again.
My classmate was raped on her way back home from university and got pregnant, but couldn’t get an abortion due to the laws. She had to drop out of university where she was studying medicine. Because of pregnancy and childbirth expenses, she couldn’t continue her studies, left college, started working at a coffee shop, lost the fun of her early twenties, and lost the chance to attend international medical conferences she once dreamt of… all just to give birth to a child she never wanted.
People say, “What if the baby you abort grows up and cures cancer?”
Okay — but what if the 19-year-old you deny an abortion to grows up and cures cancer?
Now she can’t afford to get an education. Instead, she has to take care of a baby. What about her? An actual living human being???
“Abortion ends potential life”… So do property disputes, war, and genocide. You only seem to care about lives when women don’t give birth to them.
dengan budak lembam gemuk tak laku bolehla kau putar kari putar alam, perangai sebenar kau semua orang dah tahu lah mat memang jadi bahan jenaka je embarrassing betul 😆✋