CHINA
President Obama and President Hu: China's
forced abortion must be stopped!
On January 18, Reggie Littlejohn spoke at the Capitol Hill press conference on Chinese human rights called by Congressman Chris Smith. Littlejohn urged President Obama to discuss human Rights with President Hu Jintao during his visit to DC. Here is a transcript of her remarks.
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Women's Rights Without Frontiers (19.01.2011) / HRWF (20.01.2011) - www.hrwf.net - In 2009, Liu Dan was 21 years old and 9 months pregnant when family planning police grabbed her out of her home, dragged her pleading and crying to the local family planning office, and forcibly aborted her full term baby. They did this even though they already knew from medical tests that she had high blood pressure and that a forced late term abortion would be dangerous for her. After the forced abortion, she lay alone and unconscious in an operating room in the family planning center. Sensing something was wrong, her fiancé burst into the room at 3:00 a.m. to find her bleeding from the eyes, nose, ears and mouth. Even so, the family planning police refused to call for emergency help, until her family insisted. Help arrived too late. Liu Dan died, along with her full term baby.
China's One Child Policy causes more violence against women and girls than any other official policy on earth. It is China's war on women. I say to President Obama, any discussion of women's rights, or human rights, would be a charade if forced abortion in China is not front and center. It does not matter whether you are pro-life or pro-choice on this issue. No one supports forced abortion, because it is not a choice. Rather, the Chinese forced abortion policy is systematic, institutionalized violence against women.
The Chinese Communist Party says that the One Child Policy is none of our business - that it's their internal affair. This argument is a smoke screen. First, the Chinese government has signed several international treaties that protect the rights of women and families. Forced abortion violates these treaties.
