Girl who was not supposed to be born heading to Carnegie
The young girl’s fingers fly over the piano keyboard in ways that impress even the judges of international competitions, so much so that she’s scheduled in a few weeks to appear at Carnegie Hall.
But the talent that Anni Zhang puts on display, if China had had its way, never would have been.
She was the No. 2 daughter of her family in China during a time when the one-child policy, now two-child but still forcing abortions, limited family sizes.
According to Reggie Littlejohn, president of the Womens Rights Without Frontiers organization, which has been fighting China’s deadly mandatory abortion policy for years, Anni’s family had to endure persecution to keep their daughter.
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