Tag: "China"

State Department Human Rights Report Condemns Forced Abortions in China
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State Department Human Rights Report Condemns Forced Abortions in China

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In the mid-eighties I met with Elliot Abrams, who was then serving as Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, to call his attention to the victims of China’s one-child policy. I told him that massive numbers of forced abortions and forced sterilizations had occurred in China over the past few years as the Communist […]

What the Legacy of China's One Child Policy Can Teach America
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What the Legacy of China’s One Child Policy Can Teach America

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News broke last week that China has reversed its infamous one child policy after 35 years, increasing the permitted number of children per family to two. The Washington Post ran a story reviewing the history of the policy, a brutal and heartbreaking legacy of forced abortion, corruption, and despair. China’s one-child policy is a prime […]

Science Run Amok
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Science Run Amok

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Sometimes reports impacting respect for the dignity of the human person appear to have been written by Rod Serling, creator of the 1950’s television series The Twilight Zone. For example, in China it is reported that scientists are editing the genomes of human embryos. The research has been roundly criticized by Marcy Darnovsky of the […]

Violent Population Control Continues in China
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Violent Population Control Continues in China

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Contrary to recent reports, China’s population control policy still systematically enforces a policy of coerced abortion, sterilization, and child abandonment. The propaganda, coercion, and violence used by the Chinese Family Planning police continues to violate the rights of Chinese women, men, and their unborn children. In November 2013, the Chinese government changed the regulations to […]

“Better to be a Criminal in China than a Pregnant Mother”
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“Better to be a Criminal in China than a Pregnant Mother”

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The Chinese Ministry of State Security must have been asleep on  the job. The email that appeared in my Inbox read: “It is better to be a criminal in China than a pregnant mother.” Now, I knew that women who get pregnant outside the state plan are often browbeaten or bullied into abortions and sterilizations. […]

Earth Day 2014: Chinese Conundrum
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Earth Day 2014: Chinese Conundrum

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Several years ago, in 2007, I wrote an account of my visit to Shanghai which focused, primarily, on the city’s and China’s astounding economic boom, then achieving 11 percent growth in GDP for the third straight quarter. This torrid pace has throttled back a bit to 7.4 percent. I noted that, with the economic growth, “A lot of pollution […]

Contraceptive Compliance: How the Philippines Will Become the Next China
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Contraceptive Compliance: How the Philippines Will Become the Next China

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There will be visits from the local population officer. You will not be able to be married without a “certificate of compliance” issued by the local Family Planning Office.  From 5th grade on, you will receive “values formation” and education about “population and development” and “responsible parenthood” at school.  Your government will help you achieve […]

Your Contribution to China’s One-Child Policy
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Your Contribution to China’s One-Child Policy

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Anne Roback Morse also contributed to this article. Two weeks ago, the US State Department ranked China as one of the worst countries in the world for sex-trafficking, giving the one-child policy as the root cause. This analysis is spot on. It is because of the one-child policy that Chinese parents are forced to artificially limit […]

Sex-Trafficking in China
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Sex-Trafficking in China

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On June 19, 2013 the State Department released its annual report, “Trafficking in Persons Report.” China received an automatic downgrade to the lowest ranking, Tier 3. The State Department acknowledged the one-child policy as the “key source of demand” for sex-trafficking within the country, but remained silent on revoking the policy in its recommendations for […]

 China Ratchets Up One-Child Policy; Ignores Calls from Population Experts
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China Ratchets Up One-Child Policy; Ignores Calls from Population Experts

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Recent reports from the Guangdong province show coercion in China’s infamous one-child policy is once again on the rise. Women in the southern city of Huizhou, which has a population of 4 million, are being targeted for sterilization. Those who have one child are being forced to wear IUDs. Those who have two children are […]

China's One-Child Policy Itself Leads to Forced Abortions
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China’s One-Child Policy Itself Leads to Forced Abortions

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From the beginning of the one-child policy, the Chinese Party-state has tried to blame the myriad cruelties of this barbaric policy on “out-of-control local officials.” This is nonsense, of course, since local officials are only following orders on pain of punishment. So it was that when Chinese academic Yan Li tried out this excuse in […]

Feng Jianmei: The Unanticipated Impact of One Forced-Abortion
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Feng Jianmei: The Unanticipated Impact of One Forced-Abortion

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One of the general sessions at this summer’s 2012 NRLC national convention was aglow with energy and alight with enthusiasm. You could feel a powerful swelling of emotions as pro-life champion Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Reggie Littlejohn, president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, roused their audience at a session titled, “Where Are All the […]

Sex-selection Abortions and China’s Brutality: Shall We “Gulp and Get Over It”?
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Sex-selection Abortions and China’s Brutality: Shall We “Gulp and Get Over It”?

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When Slate.com editor Allison Benedikt wrote last week that the pro-choice movement in America needs to stop being squeamish about sex-selection abortions and just accept it, I thought my head might explode, but ultimately I said nothing. One can only respond to so many outrageous things said by the abortion industry and its advocates, and […]

Aiming at China, Blind Lawyer Forces U.S. to Deal with Forced Abortions
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Aiming at China, Blind Lawyer Forces U.S. to Deal with Forced Abortions

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One man is forcing Hillary Clinton to pay attention to abuses against women. The woman who famously said in Beijing in 1995 that “women’s rights are human rights” has been excruciatingly silent since she’s come into power about one of the worst abuses against women. Mrs. Clinton’s first trip to China as U.S. Secretary of […]

Chinese Women Suffer Mental Health Risks From Abortion Despite Abortion Culture
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Chinese Women Suffer Mental Health Risks From Abortion Despite Abortion Culture

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A new study from China shows that women who have experienced induced abortion have omnipresent mental health problems during a subsequent pregnancy. It also confirms that adverse mental health effects of induced abortion are far more severe than those of miscarriage and they persist longer. The most recent study published in the Bulletin of Clinical […]

UN Agencies Fuel Sex Selective Abortions and the Devaluation of Women
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UN Agencies Fuel Sex Selective Abortions and the Devaluation of Women

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The United Nations top agencies are actively promoting two root causes of Asia’s massive gender imbalance, charged an expert on population policies this week during a UN women’s conference. Speaking on a panel during the UN’s annual Commission on the Status of Women, Dr. Susan Yoshihara identified three reasons for the “missing girls” phenomenon in […]