19 Year-Old University Student Under Fire for Posting Photos of Abortion Online

19 Year-Old University Student Under Fire for Posting Photos of Abortion Online
Sep 29, 2013 By eChinacities.com

Recently, Yang Haiyan, a 19 year-old student from the Songjiang University in Shanghai publicly announced her accidental pregnancy in a photo album on her Renren social network page. She did it by publishing photos of an ultrasound report she received from the No.411 Hospital in Shanghai that clearly shows that she was pregnant with twins. Yang also left a statement with the photograph that says, “Twins…..” She also uploaded a picture of the pregnancy test with the accompanying words “I must say good-bye to the babies tomorrow, I can’t bear to leave you.”

Yang Haiyan didn’t think that the post she made would spread so quickly throughout the Weibo micro-blogging service and on internet forums where it has been viewed several tens of thousands of times and has attracted many comments and heated debate.

Of this situation, Yang had told her friends: “I posted these pictures for myself to have something to remember. I don’t know who it is that reposted my photo album and made this as big as it is now.” Yang had only made a portion of her Renren site open to the public; her photo album and “current mood” are only available to her close friends.

According to the Shanghai No.411 Hospital, they confirmed having treated this person on September 21 by providing her with an abortion. In order to provide patient confidentiality, the hospital isn’t willing to disclose any more details.

Zhang Shaohua, a volunteer with the “Women’s Hotline for Accidental Pregnancy” and psychiatric consultant, states that Yang likely did this as a way to attract attention and support from her boyfriend and circle of friends and did not intend to become the source of a hotly debated topic.

Source: Qianzhan, Shangc.net

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zhuxi87

What a CRAP

Oct 10, 2013 16:46 Report Abuse

Guest2368048

To err is human. It is her responsibility to clean up her mess. Who are you to tell her what to do? Are you the one who pays for the twins' milk powder, diapers, education costs...etc.? It is selfish, cruel, and irresponsible to bring children to this sick planet. Hopefully girls like these learn their lesson. In my experience, their lack of understanding lies in 1) what responsibility in its full sense is, and 2). the state Earth is in. Under the hands of a good teacher even the motive Titanic can become good educational material to carry the points across.

Oct 09, 2013 17:30 Report Abuse

sorrel

it is sad to think abortion is used as a form of contraception. Education is what is really needed.

Oct 04, 2013 09:35 Report Abuse

lightend

yeah im not sure why people are so against her looking after her future? you all knw that if a 19 yer old had children in china wihtout being married she would have killed off her life before she had a chance of living her life and she will have killed foff the futures of the twins. no, its much better to abort them before they are born, before they are alive. (those who say "but they were alive" you have a point, on a cellular level they are alive, but on a cellular level a bottle of coke is alive. cells do not have complex thought processes).

Oct 02, 2013 09:41 Report Abuse

Guest434920

That's a pretty heartless thing to say. It's great she has a better future. Unfortunately, her two children have no future. Personally, I would rather be alive than killed by my mother. She has a chance to live her life, but the two she killed had their chances taken from them, violently.

Oct 02, 2013 09:56 Report Abuse

Rin

I can't thumb up your comment for some reason. Here's a thumbs up from me : )

Oct 06, 2013 18:05 Report Abuse

Vyborg

Wawawa! What's the problem? The girl's had an abortion and used modern technology (maybe not the cleverest of choices) to share her feelings with her boyfriend and friends. The title of the article is misleading in that she posted photo's of the ultrasound (in other words, of the embryos). Not of the abortion. As for her feelings, I only read a certain sadness there. Imagine, again, the lack of sexual education and the (internalized) social pressure not to continue the pregnancy at her age. This is not a happy girl. And then some motherphcker thinks (s)he's funny and publishes the thing for the whole world to see. Now that is cruel. And what is that patient confidentiality at Shanghai 411 Hospital? I can show them a picture of a girl and they'll tell me, yes, she's had an abortion here yesterday, but we won't say anything eh? Disgusting. Don't get me wrong. I am not pro abortion. The problem here is not that, though. Chinese mores is not Christian mores and abortion is widely accepted here. A sorry state of affairs, when the whole country is denying sexuality and processing huge amounts of money on it at the same time, prohibiting prostitution while political cohesion partly depends on it.

Oct 01, 2013 19:44 Report Abuse

Guest434920

The problem is that two people, two vulnerable and innocent people, are dead. They were victims of violence before even having a chance to draw breath. Just because something is widely accepted, doesn't make it right.

Oct 02, 2013 09:54 Report Abuse

Vyborg

That may be a problem, but it's not the problem here. This article was not published to inform us someone has had an abortion. It's about the girl, about how her story got public and what sh*tty role media can play in one's life. But this article seems to be blaming the girl herself for that. I, for one, would hope that all that heated debate would lead the young Chinese generation to openly discuss the possibilities of contraceptives, which are a lot cheaper and emotionally less detrimental than an abortion.

Oct 02, 2013 13:35 Report Abuse

Rin

Well said Vyborg.

Oct 06, 2013 18:04 Report Abuse

wildbill

What horrific honesty! What testimony to how man can harden conscience!

Oct 01, 2013 11:52 Report Abuse

mike168229

My god.

Sep 29, 2013 17:23 Report Abuse

juanisaac

I second your comment. If we are going to apply free choice here, it would have been nice to ask her now dead children if they wanted to live.

Oct 01, 2013 09:37 Report Abuse