“The Chinese officers beat us. Then we were made to stand at the wall with our hands up and were beaten again,” 25-year-old Ngawang Wangdon [said. S]he was detained in a solitary cell for a month.

“Every five days, I was taken to questioning and was beaten,” Wangdon said. “Some Tibetan prisoners were beaten for not being able to speak Chinese,” she said.

At Trisam prison, “every morning, the officers made us face the sun and stand for 45 minutes. Anyone who moved was beaten,” the [Tibetan Buddhist] nun said.
[…]
“We were beaten from 10 p.m. until 3 a.m. with our hands cuffed and tied with ropes. The officers shocked us with electric prods,” she recalled. There were also other occasions when she was made to kneel on the ground, was beaten and shocked with a prod on the back of her neck and in her mouth. […] Wangdon says she still suffers from kidney problems caused by the torture during her years of detention and imprisonment.
[…]
“I believe basic human rights are universal. I want people to recognize and support the universal human rights, including those of Tibetans,” she said.

(source: Tibetan nun speaks of torture by China – www.phayul.com)

So, which of these, say you, is the sort of thing no regime that claims to uphold “human rights” or to subserve any understanding of humans as each possessed of an innate and inviolable dignity could countenance?  The sort of thing that no society of decent people could possibly tolerate?  Above?  or below:

As described by Dr. Carhart, the D&E procedure requires the abortionist to use instruments to grasp a portion (such as a foot or hand) of a developed and living fetus and drag the grasped portion out of the uterus into the vagina. Id., at 61. Dr. Carhart uses the traction created by the opening between the uterus and vagina to dismember the fetus, tearing the grasped portion away from the remainder of the body. Ibid. The traction between the uterus and vagina is essential to the procedure because attempting to abort a fetus without using that traction is described by Dr. Carhart as “pulling the cat’s tail” or “drag[ging] a string across the floor, you’ll just keep dragging it. It’s not until something grabs the other end that you are going to develop traction.” Id., at 62. The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. Id., at 63. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off. Dr. Carhart agreed that “[w]hen you pull out a piece of the fetus, let’s say, an arm or a leg and remove that, at the time just prior to removal of the portion of the fetus, … the fetus [is] alive.” Id., at 62. Dr. Carhart has observed fetal heartbeat via ultrasound with “extensive parts of the fetus removed,” id., at 64, and testified that mere dismemberment of a limb does not always cause death because he knows of a physician who removed the arm of a fetus only to have the fetus go on to be born “as a living child with one arm.” Id., at 63. At the conclusion of a D&E abortion no intact fetus remains. In Dr. Carhart’s words, the abortionist is left with “a tray full of pieces.” Id., at 125.

(source: STENBERG V. CARHART)

…and which one have we bright-eyed children of the Enlightenment done anything about?

Oh.

Neither, right.  There’s the one fashionable people talk about, and the one unfashionable people talk about, and China is still a “Most Favored Nation”–and, even when we make small gains, we still kill millions.  We don’t just tolerate it, we call it a “right” and mandate its provision and promotion.

Just so we’re clear on that.