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Abortion adverts come to a college campusPosted by Eric Mu on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 3:48 PM
 New Culture View October 29, 2008 A hospital distributed makeup mirrors bearing medical ads to a Changchun university, reports the New Culture View. The mirrors were passed out at the door to the cafeteria to every student who entered from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm. The mirror was enclosed in a seven by five centimeter plastic case. On the front was the the inscription: "1,000 yuan in generous aid." Inside: "Ultrasound visual painless abortion (超导可视无痛人流): It only takes 400 yuan and three minutes for the safest guarantee of love," and ""Show this mirror to the hospital and you can get a female check-up, ultrasound, expert appointment, and early pregnancy check-up free of charge." And on the back: "30% discount on all female disease treatments and surgeries (vagina tightening, maidenhead repair, ectopic pregnancy, cervical cancer). Medicine during treatment is free." The president of the hospital, a certain Mr. Wu, told the New Culture View that the hospital used to hand out leaflets, but their effect was not very good because too many people threw them away without reading them. The hospital is now using the mirrors in the hope that people will keep them longer. Wu also said that they chose the university to distribute the ads simply because university students are their core customer group. ------------------------------  The Beijing News October 29, 2008 The Beijing News reports on a grisly murder case involving a law professor and a student at China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing. Yesterday at around 6:40 pm, at the university's Changping District campus, professor Cheng Chunming was attacked with a knife by a student whose name was withheld by the newspaper. Cheng was about to begin a class on general comparative law when the incident took place; after the attack, the suspect called the police. The professor received two slashes across his neck and died before he was sent to Changping Chinese Medicine Hospital at 6:55. There are rumors that the deceased had an affair with the suspect's girlfriend. Links and Sources
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Comments on Abortion adverts come to a college campus
"Inside: "Ultrasound visual painless abortion"---ARTICLE"
Killing a potential life is painless? That's completely wrong and immoral.
"The president of the hospital, a certain Mr. Wu, told the New Culture View that the hospital used to hand out leaflets, but their effect was not very good because too many people threw them away without reading them."---ARTICLE
Perhaps Mr. Wu should be aborted from his job for promoting the destruction of human life.
I saw a large "painless abortion" ad featuring an attractive, smiling young woman on the side of a news kiosk once. I'm pro-choice, but I still thought it was one of the most grotesque yet darkly funny things I've ever seen.
There are also stashes of ads for STDs, but indeed, abortion is a totally different matter, as a woman myself, I support that one should be able to make such a choice, but only if things are getting out of control. but these irresponsable ads, whose sole purpose is that some surely unqualified clinics are wishing to make a profit! No need to mention that abortion concerns a lot more about ethics and morality than most other things people can encounter in lives, and one can just see, through these heartless ads (and many other things) that how empty and lack of even just some slightest intention of self-reflection some chinese people are...when the authority denies all religions, they never think about whether their citizens can keep their conscience to the right side of a certain lines.