Why China?

My wife and I are in the process of adopting from China. As we have been pursuing this for a number of months now, we have been asked the question numerous times, why China? I read this article this morning and was reminded again why we want to adopt from China. This article is a poignant reminder of what happens when the imago dei is lost. If man is not in God's image, he is nothing more than a collection of atoms and matter. To paraphrase Schaeffer, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity.

The article opens with this paragraph:

After one birth and one abortion, a young Chinese woman gave birth to her second child. Knowing the fines for giving birth illegally would leave her family impoverished, she left the baby with her sister in another village and went to an abortion clinic, where she paid the clinic for the corpse of a baby girl. When the population control police came to her home to levy the fine, she carried the body to the door. They assumed her baby died and left her alone.

This is why we want to adopt from China.