Time to End Forced Abortion in China
International Women’s Day was Saturday, March 8. But it is not too late to share this call to end forced abortion in China:
Honoring the continuing significance of International Women’s Day, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers has called for the end of forced abortion in China.
China’s One Child Policy has caused more violence against women and girls than any other official policy on earth. Already this year, the headlines coming out of China concerning its One Child Policy are heartbreaking: A Chinese woman, forced to abort at seven months, said, “I feel like a walking corpse.” A Chinese obstetrician was caught and found guilty of selling newborn babies to human traffickers.
Forced abortion is not a choice. Gendercide – the sex-selective abortion of baby girls – is supreme savagery against women and is often coerced. International Women’s Day aims to “focus[] world attention on areas requiring further action.” Because of its enormous population, forced abortion and gendercide in China are the biggest violations of women’s rights in the world today. Women’s Rights Without Frontiers calls for an end to this barbarity.
Reports abound that China has “eased” the policy, giving the false impression that China has abandoned coercive family planning. It has not. …
Learn More:
The Most Violent Policy Against Women and Girls in the World
Not Just China and India: Sex Selection Abortions Spreading Around the World
Experts Says Sex Selection Abortions Happening in the U.S., Many Coerced
Man Killed by Family Planning Officials in China, Rights Group Reports
U.S. Reports on Forced Abortion in China, North Korea
