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30 Years Later: The Academe as Refuge for Anti-Abortion Protest?
Submitted by Melinda L. Secor on Sun, 2012-05-13 01:00
"Uncertainty continues, as he remains in a Chinese hospital with promises made, but no passport or details for his move to the U.S. provided, though the Chinese government is certainly expressing its desire to see him obtain refuge in academe. What a far cry from the drama I witnessed as a student 30 years ago at Stanford, when another documentarian of Chinese forced abortions found himself expelled from academe under pressure from the Chinese government."
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