China's Chen Guangcheng 'set to fly to US'

But if he did, he stands by it.

This was the lead story a few days ago when it was a potential embarrassment to Obama. Now that you can chalk up another diplomatic coup for his administration, I haven't seen this story covered at all on the teevee. Romney needs to face the music regarding his earlier criticism.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chen-guangcheng-leaves-beijing-hospital-headed-for-us/2012/05/19/gIQApKMEaU_story.html

for the Romney campaign.

And are you saying that assistance to a dissident somehow doesn't count unless it's from someone carefully vetted to adhere strictly to your own point of view?

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/30/11474717-who-is-fu-chinese-exile-is-gods-double-agent?lite

It's about evangelicals and abortion politics.

I don't support pretentious extraterritorial meddling in the internal affairs of other countries.

In spite of the fact that the Communists threw out all the meddling clerics from the "mission fields of China".

Human rights by definition apply to every country.

But each country can define "responsibly".

...is still interference with family planning. Let's not kid ourselves about what women and men are subject to in the People's Republic of China.

From Amnesty International, "Thousands at Risk of Force Sterilizations in China."

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/thousands-risk-forced-sterilization-china-2010-04-22

Amnesty International's stance on reproductive rights and the rights of women and girls in general:

http://www.amnesty.org/en/campaigns/stop-violence-against-women/issues/implementation-existing-laws/srr

On this case:

http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/china-must-guarantee-chen-guangcheng-s-safety-2012-04-27

A self-taught legal activist, Chen Guangcheng became internationally known after he exposed widespread forced abortion and sterilization practices by authorities in Linyi, in the name of implementing China’s population control policy.

Authorities retaliated, sentencing him in 2006 to more than four years in prison on charges of “damaging property and assembling a crowd to disrupt traffic” and Amnesty International considered him a prisoner of conscience.

Upon his release in September 2010, Chen Guangcheng and his family were immediately placed under illegal house arrest in his home village of Donshigu in Linyi County, Shangdong province.

Visitors attempting to see Chen while under house arrest told media they were beaten bloody, robbed of their possessions, and driven away from the village with bags over their heads.

By the way, as far as the religious aspect goes, though Christians in the U.S. have taken a particular interest in his case, I've read Chen Guangcheng himself is not a Christian. I don't know what faith, if any, he practices.

Oh, sorry, I thought he was going to continue his escape. I mean, if he can sneak out of a heavily armed building and run for miles and scale a wall while blind...you know what? Never mind.