The Communist Chinese policy of birth control by coerced
abortions to reduce the birth rate of couples to one child is a very
real and grim fact. LifeSiteNews recently reported the story of Chen
Guangcheng, a dissident who escaped from China and is shining the
spotlight on Apple Corporation, whose employees at factories in China are compelled to undergo monthly pregnancy tests.
Liu Ping, a Chinese woman testifying last year before a congressional committee that oversees human rights in a hearing entitled "China's One-Child Policy: The Government's Massive Crime Against Women and Unborn Babies," described how the communist-controlled government operated in the Apple factory in China where she worked:
Littlejohn also demanded that more be done to follow up on cases of forced pregnancy testing:
Often this state policy of one-child families is enforced simply by homicide. In late July USA Today reported that a baby was killed in the town of Moshan, Shandong province. The parents already had one child, so population control officials tracked them down and injected the mother, who was nine-months pregnant, with an abortion-inducing drug. The baby was pulled out of the mother “like a piece of meat,” the story said. The baby was crying when authorities shoved it into a bucket to die.
According to a story in Epoch Times, in 2009, a mother and baby died after an abduction and forced abortion by officials in the city of Liaocheng:
The Obama administration has been indifferent about ending this practice. Vice President Joe Biden, for example, has said that he “understands” the need for China’s “one child policy.” White House Science Czar John Holdren has written in favor of forced abortions and compulsory sterilization. And outside the administration, Ted Turner and others, including a number of U.S. academicians, have argued for the need for state control over reproduction — even including the murder of perfectly healthy and wanted babies — in order to maintain the proper population balance.
Liu Ping, a Chinese woman testifying last year before a congressional committee that oversees human rights in a hearing entitled "China's One-Child Policy: The Government's Massive Crime Against Women and Unborn Babies," described how the communist-controlled government operated in the Apple factory in China where she worked:
By order of the factory’s Family Planning
Commission, every month during their menstrual period, women had to
undress in front of the birth planning doctor for examination. If anyone
skipped the examination, she would be forced to take a pregnancy test
at the hospital. We were allowed to collect a salary only after it was
confirmed that we were not pregnant. When discovered, pregnant women
would be dragged to undergo forced abortions — there simply was no other
choice.
What Liu Ping described was also the practice at 23 other Apple
facilities in China. Ms. Reggie Littlejohn, president of Women’s Rights
Without Borders, condemned the inaction of Apple in preventing these
sorts of human rights abuses. In response to a claim that Apple was
working to correct these problems, Littlejohn declared, “Why, then, is
it still the case that pregnancy testing is reported as rampant? Either
Apple’s requirement that these practices must stop is new or its
policies to implement it are ineffectual.”Littlejohn also demanded that more be done to follow up on cases of forced pregnancy testing:
We want to know what has happened to
women at Apple factories when they have been found to be pregnant
without a birth permit. Have they been referred for a forced abortion or
involuntary sterilization? With the one child/forced abortion law in
place, how can Apple assure consumers that its products are made in
facilities free of coercive population control?
“The women of China are neither safe nor secure so long as this
heinous policy is permitted to exist,” Littlejohn insisted. “Any
discussion of women’s rights or human rights would be a charade if
forced abortion in China is not front and center.” She added that the
Chinese one-child policy “causes more violence against women and girls
than any other official policy on earth.” She filed a complaint about
this policy in August 2012 with the UN Population Fund.Often this state policy of one-child families is enforced simply by homicide. In late July USA Today reported that a baby was killed in the town of Moshan, Shandong province. The parents already had one child, so population control officials tracked them down and injected the mother, who was nine-months pregnant, with an abortion-inducing drug. The baby was pulled out of the mother “like a piece of meat,” the story said. The baby was crying when authorities shoved it into a bucket to die.
According to a story in Epoch Times, in 2009, a mother and baby died after an abduction and forced abortion by officials in the city of Liaocheng:
According to a doctor at the hospital
where the two died, the young woman was kidnapped by the Birth Control
Office and taken to the hospital where she was forced to undergo an
abortion procedure. The young woman fought with staff to protect her
unborn child, however a half a dozen men, pushed her down on a bed and
injected her with a drug to induce labor. After the young woman had a
still birth, she developed a massive hemorrhage and soon thereafter
died.
The Chinese policy is also a form of “gendercide," as some have
described it. Because boys are more desired than girls in nations such
as China and India, it is much easier for authorities to gain
acquiescence on the infanticide of unborn baby girls. Studies how found
that there are 40 million “missing” girls in China and 50 million in
India.The Obama administration has been indifferent about ending this practice. Vice President Joe Biden, for example, has said that he “understands” the need for China’s “one child policy.” White House Science Czar John Holdren has written in favor of forced abortions and compulsory sterilization. And outside the administration, Ted Turner and others, including a number of U.S. academicians, have argued for the need for state control over reproduction — even including the murder of perfectly healthy and wanted babies — in order to maintain the proper population balance.
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