This Nobel Nominee Actually Saves Babies When President Obama
won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, that meant there were 205
nominees for the award who didn't. One of them was Jim Garrow of
the Bethune Institute. Valerie Richardson, Human Events - March
13, 2012 Let history decide who was most deserving. Obama was
elected president on a platform of hope and change. Jim Garrow
has spent $23 million over the past 10 years rescuing an
estimated 31,000 Chinese baby girls from near-certain death
under China's one-child-per-couple policy. Not only is the work
difficult and costly, it can also be deadly. In 2004, two of
Garrow's employees were killed outside Harbin, China, in a
skirmish with baby-stealers, mercenaries who kidnap and sell
babies to foreign couples and adoption services. "They got in
the way," says Garrow grimly. "And there's a lot of that in
China, particularly out in the hinterlands." Still, the murders
haven't lessened his resolve to continue what has inadvertently
become his life's work. As Garrow tell