Womens Rights Without Frontiers

A new video featuring One Child Policy activist Chen Guangcheng was leaked to the China Aid Association Wednesday.  It has just been reported that this morning, Chen and his wife, Yuan Weijing, were “beaten senseless” in retaliation for the release of the video.

Blind activist Chen exposed the systematic use of forced abortion in implementing China’s One Child Policy.  His work has not gone unnoticed by the world.  Time Magazine named him in its list of “2006’s Top 100 People Who Shape Our World,” in the category of “Heroes and Pioneers.”  In 2007 he was awarded the Magsaysay award, known as Asia’s Nobel Prize.

The Chinese Communist Party, however, took a different view.  For standing up for the rights of Chinese women, Chen was handed a four year, three month jail sentence, was tortured and denied medical treatment, and is now languishing under house arrest.  No one had heard from him since September until yesterday, when he released this video.

We are alarmed about the brutal beating of Chen and his wife, who are reportedly unable to move from their beds.  We are also indignant about the conditions of Chen’s house arrest.  A total of 66 security police surround their home day and night.  Chen has been denied medical treatment.  Nor can they communicate with the outside world, as their phone and computer access have been cut off.

At least that was the plan of the Chinese Communist Party.  That plan was shattered by “a reliable government source who is sympathetic to Chen’s cause and outraged by the treatment of Chen,” according to CAA.  In other words, Chen’s video was leaked to the West by a Chinese government insider.

This “reliable government source” must be a person of tremendous courage.  The CCP is no doubt interrogating all those responsible for walling Chen off from the world, to determine which of them was responsible for providing Chen with the means to get his message out.  If the person responsible for leaking the video is discovered, I shudder to think what may happen to them.

What does this act of defiance by a “reliable government source” say about the credibility of the CCP within China?  Has its human rights record become so debased that its own security police are willing to risk their safety to stand up for those they have been hired to victimize?

Not only are Chen and his family under house arrest, but security forces appear to have intimidated his entire village.  According to a Radio Free Asia report last month, a woman attempting to visit Chen said, “No one in this village will speak a word about [Chen] . . . None of the villagers I spoke to, nor the police, was even willing to utter his name.”

Why is the CCP so determined to crush Chen, as though he were a dangerous criminal?  The CCP wants the world to believe that its One Child Policy is voluntary.  Chinese President Hu Jintao, during his visit to Washington last month, told Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen that China has no policy of forced abortion.  In contrast, Chen single-handedly exposed the fact that there were 130,000 forced abortions and involuntary sterilizations in Linyi County, Shandong Province in just one year, 2005.  If China truly has no forced abortion policy, then why didn’t the regime jail those who were performing these forced abortions?  Why instead has it jailed and beaten Chen Guangcheng?

The fact that Chen remains under house arrest proves that President Hu’s statement is false.  The fact that Chen remains unyielding – continuing to urge his fellow citizens to stand up for their rights in China – must rankle party bosses.

Chen Guangcheng is the “Tank Man” against China’s One Child Policy. Impoverished, beaten and blind, Chen nevertheless possesses the surpassing backbone to stand alone against the grinding juggernaut of this totalitarian regime.  The CCP apparently perceives in Chen a real threat to its crumbling legitimacy.

In pressing for justice for Chen and his family, let us not forget those for whom he has sacrificed his freedom:  the women and families of China who are being shattered daily by forced abortion, forced sterilization and infanticide.  The coercive enforcement of China’s One Child Policy causes more violence against women and girls than any other official policy on earth.  It is the greatest women’s rights issue in the world today.  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.

Women’s Rights Without Frontiers calls for the immediate, unconditional release from house arrest of Chen Guangcheng and his family, and for urgent medical treatment. To sign a petition to Free Chen Guangcheng, click here: http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/

A wise man once said, “A house divided cannot stand.”  The CCP does everything it can to present itself as a monolithic behemoth, but does it recognize in the hated One Child Policy its Achilles heel?

AUTHOR’S NOTE:  The following links are relevant to this article:

Malcolm Moore, The Telegraph, 2/10/11
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8316265/Blind-Chinese-activist-beaten-senseless.html

Exclusive Video Shows Ill Treatment and Illegal Detention of Blind Activist Chen Guangcheng, China Aid, 2/9/11
http://www.chinaaid.org/2011/02/exclusive-video-shows-ill-treatment.html?utm_source=BP_recent

Qiao Long and Richard Finney, “Chinese Women Forced to Abort, Radio Free Asia 2/3/11
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/abortions-02032011105802.html

Xin Yu and Sun Jian, “No Let-Up for Activists,” Radio Free Asia 1/12/11
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/nobel-01122011123903.html

Radio Free Asia
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/abortions-02032011105802.html

CHINA – FORCED ABORTION – ONE-CHILD POLICY

China’s One-Child policy leads to widespread suffering and abuse.

Women’s Rights Without Frontiers – Friends grieve at the funeral of a 21-year-old Chinese woman who died following a forced abortion in February, 2009.
February 3, 2011 – Chinese authorities routinely force women to terminate “unauthorized” pregnancies despite President Hu Jintao’s denial that the practice exists, experts say.

Hu’s denial came at a meeting with Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chairwoman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, when the Chinese leader made a state visit to the United States last month.

In a statement released following the meeting, Ros-Lehtinen said she had challenged Hu on a range of Chinese human rights abuses.

“Out of all the issues I raised, the only one which received a response from Mr. Hu was my statement urging the end of China’s forced abortion policy. I was astonished when he insisted that such a policy does not exist,” Ros-Lehtinen said.

Speaking in an interview, women’s rights advocate Reggie Littlejohn slammed Hu’s statement as “an absolutely appalling misrepresentation.”

“It is an undeniable fact that forced abortion occurs in China, and we have lots of evidence of this,” said Littlejohn, president of the California-based Women’s Rights Without Frontiers.

“At the provincial and at the local level, regulations say that ‘out-of-plan’ pregnancies shall be terminated,” Littlejohn said, referring to measures taken to enforce China’s strict One-Child policy limiting the number of allowable births.

“Women who have pregnancies out of plan are required to take ‘remedial measures,’ which is a euphemism for forced abortion,” she added.

“So I just believe that [Hu’s] statement was false and misleading.”

‘An execution’

In a case reported in October by RFA, a woman in the southern Chinese city of Amoy in Fujian province was detained in her 32nd week of pregnancy by local family planning officials, beaten, and forced to undergo an abortion.

Chinese netizens exposed the case on the microblogging site Twitter, calling for public attention to the fate of the pregnant woman, Xiao Aiying, and condemning the late-term abortion as “an execution.”

Xiao’s husband Luo Yanquan said in an interview that Xiao had been taken from their home late one night by local family planning cadres.

“She refused to go and insisted on waiting for me to be home, but they forced her to leave,” Luo said.

“They took her to the Street Committee Office and locked her up there, taking her cell phone away and barring anyone from visiting her. Several men beat her up, bruising her legs and feet. She was kept there for about 40 hours,” Luo added.

Luo said that Xiao was then taken to Amoy’s Siming Hospital, checked into a room in the obstetrics ward, and injected with drugs to induce an abortion.

“Neither my wife nor I signed an agreement,” Luos said.  “But the cadres ‘approved’ and signed the paperwork and presented it to the hospital.”

“This was a forced abortion,” Luo said.

‘Routinely punished’

In a 2010 report, the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China noted that local officials in China had continued during the year “to coerce women with unauthorized pregnancies to undergo abortions  in both urban and rural areas across China’s major regions.”

Violators of China’s One-Child policy “are routinely punished with fines, and in some cases, subjected to forced sterilization, forced abortion, arbitrary detention, and torture,” the Commission added.

“China’s population planning policies in both their nature and implementation violate international human rights standards,” the Commission said.

Reported by Qiao Long for RFA’s Mandarin service. Translated by Chen Ping. Written in English with additional reporting by Richard Finney.   Reprinted with permission.

Reggie Littlejohn speaks out against forced abortion in China at the Capitol Hill Press Conference on Chinese Human Rights of 1/18/11. Also pictured are Bob Fu, President of China Aid, Geng He, wife of Gao Zhisheng, and Congressman Chris Smith.

Dear President Hu Jintao,

When questioned by Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the new chair of our House Foreign Affairs Committee, you denied that China forces women to have abortions under its One Child Policy.  What you told Rep. Ros-Lehtinen is a falsehood, astonishing in its audacity.  By attempting to deceive our Congressional Representative, you are attempting to deceive the US government and the American people.

Your claim is easy to disprove.  In October 2010, an appalling video appeared of a woman who had been beaten and forced to abort at eight months.  The video shows the jail cell in which this pregnant woman and others like her are forced to receive injections through their wombs and into the skulls of their unborn babies, to kill them.  This is happening to thousands of women all over China.  You can watch this video here.  http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/blog/?p=25

Forced abortion is not the only atrocity committed in the name of the One Child Policy. Here are some other serious human rights violations that leaked out of China in 2010:

Forced Sterilization. Between April 7 to 27 of 2010, the Population and Family Planning Bureau detained 1,300 people in a campaign to sterilize nearly 10,000 people in the city of Puning, Guangdong Province.  In order to meet sterilization quotas, the Puning population control authorities detained parents—as well as other family members, such as elderly grandparents—for refusing the sterilization procedures.

Infanticide. In May 2010, crematorium workers in Guangdong Province found an infant crying in a “medical waste” receptacle on its way to being cremated, according to Xinhua, China’s official news agency. The crematorium workers immediately sent the infant back to the hospital. Later that day, the hospital sent the infant back to the crematorium, dead. The hospital offered no explanation of the cause of death.  To see a web-based discussion among Chinese doctors about how best to kill infants who are being born alive during induced labor forced abortions, read “Best Practices – Infanticide.”  This document was found on the official Chinese website for obstetricians and gynecologists. http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=congressional

Psychiatric Torture. In November 2010, Radio Free Asia reported that Gu Xianghong languishes in an “Ankang,” a special Chinese psychiatric hospital run by police.  In a video quoted by RFA, Gu says, “They put electrodes on my temples and they were burned black. They handcuffed me and chained my feet . . . My [entire family] and home have been ruined by the village government.” They also subjected her to injections against her will. According to the report, Gu has been jailed nine times in the Ankang since 1992.  Why?  Because she is suing the local government over “family planning issues.”

President Hu, if forced abortion, forced sterilization, infanticide and psychiatric torture are not policies of the Chinese Communist Party to enforce the One Child Policy, then why are you not prosecuting those cadres who are perpetrating these crimes against humanity?  Why, instead, are you persecuting those who are exposing these crimes?  Take, for example, blind activist Chen Guangcheng, who exposed the 130,000 mass forced abortions and forced sterilizations in Linyi County, Shandong Province, in 2005. For this he served a four-year prison sentence, during which time he was severely beaten and denied medical attention.   On April 30, 2006, Time Magazine named him in its list of “2006’s Top 100 People Who Shape Our World,” in the category of “Heroes and Pioneers.”  Now, he remains languishing under house arrest.  Free Chen Guangcheng!

The coercive enforcement of your One Child Policy causes more violence against women and girls than any other official policy on earth and any other official policy in the history of the world.  And yet, on September 26, 2010, the China Daily News reported an official statement by the head of your National Population and Family Planning Commission that the One Child Policy will remain in force for “decades.”

President Hu, your attempted cover-up will not work.  We are committed to exposing the truth about your One Child Policy:  it is China’s war on women and girls.  Our online petition has now gathered more than 5000 signatures from 88 countries, so I speak for people from all over the world when I say, stop forced abortion in China!

Sincerely,

Reggie Littlejohn, President

Women’s Rights Without Frontiers

Online Petition: http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=sign_our_petition

Author’s Note:

The following links are relevant to this letter:

Hu Denies Forced Abortions:  US Lawmaker

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j3Mh3tnXMcd0WNe-hRScjwTSjTdg?docId=CNG.0dd9bfe0c5ee86343c03c93188764bfa.b61

China to Stick with One Child Policy, USA Today, 9/26/10

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-09-27-china-one-child-policy_N.htm

Appalling Youtube Video – Forced Abortion at Eight Months 10/21/10

http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/blog/?p=25

One Child Policy Victim “Treated” with Electroshock, Injections, [Online] Available http://newsblaze.com/story/20101103050138zzzz.nb/topstory.html, November 3, 2010

“Aborted Baby Cries Before Cremation,” Australian Women Online, [Online] Available http://www.australianwomenonline.com/forced-abortion-and-sterlisation-in-china/, June 3, 2010

“China’s Forced Sterilization Campaign Is a Crime Against Humanity,” The Epoch Times, [Online] Available http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/34698/, May 4, 2010

“21 Dead Babies Found Floating in a Shandong River,” China Aid Association, [Online] Available http://www.chinaaid.org/qry/page.taf?id=144&_function=detail&sbtblct_uid1=1425&_nc=95bebd613c14942943b26c8375af5223, April 8, 2010

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.

Pres. Obama:  China’s Forced Abortion is Violence Against Women

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.

Second, the One Child Policy has given rise to gendercide, the sex-selective abortion of baby girls.  Because of this, there are an estimated 37 million more men than women in China – men who will never marry because their future wives were aborted before they were born.  This gender imbalance is the driving force behind human trafficking and sexual slavery.  Women and girls not only within China, but also from many of the surrounding countries, are trafficked as sex slaves and forced brides to service these 37 million “bare branches.”

This is not an internal affair for China.  It is an international issue, and it calls for an international response.  Women’s Rights Without Frontiers announces that we have an online petition to stop forced abortion and sexual slavery in China.  We already have more than 5000 signatures from 88 countries, all over the world.  So, through this petition, I represent more than 5000 people from 88 countries who are saying with one voice:  President Hu Jintao, stop forced abortion in China!

Another thing the CCP would like the world to believe is that ethnic minorities are exempt from the One Child Policy.  This is pure propaganda.  My colleagues at TibetTruth have just released an extensive, comprehensive report of the atrocities committed against Tibetan women in the name of the One Child Policy. http://tibettruth.com/2011/01/14/report-exposes-horrors-of-coercive-birth-control-in-occupied-tibet/ And Rebiya Kadeer has submitted into the Congressional Record a hard-hitting report on the genocidal use of the One Child Policy against the Uyghurs. http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=congressional

How does forced abortion in China affect us as Americans?

CNN’s Ted Turner has repeatedly called for the whole world, including the United States, to adopt the One Child Policy, most recently at the Cancun Climate Conference just last month.  Turner says that its enforcement is not “draconian.”  This statement is demonstrably false.  The One Child Policy is enforced through forced abortion, forced sterilization and infanticide.  Adopting it world wide would hurl women’s rights back to the dark ages.  Ted Turner, if you’re watching, I challenge you to debate me on this — if you dare to have a substantive exchange on this subject.

Forced abortion in China affects us as Americans because we’re subsidizing it by funding the UNFPA, which was found by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell to be complicit in coercive family planning in China.  Why should American tax dollars subsidize forced abortion in China?

In China, a woman’s body is not her own.  It belongs to the state.  A woman’s womb is the most intimate part of her body – physically, emotionally and spiritually. For the Chinese Communist Party to force its bloody hand right into a woman’s womb and crush the life inside her is a heinous crime against humanity.  I call upon President Obama – if you care about women’s rights, if you care about human rights – tell President Hu Jintao, FORCED ABORTION IN CHINA MUST BE STOPPED.

To sign a petition against forced abortion and sexual slavery in China, click here:

http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=sign_our_petition

To watch a video exposing the truth about the One Child Policy, click here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjtuBcJUsjY&feature=rec-LGOUT-exp_fresh+div-1r-1-HM

To watch the Press Conference on C-Span, click here.  (Littlejohn’s remarks are at 57:35 to 1:04)

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/HumanRightsinChina10

Please feel free to share this video about China’s One Child Policy with your friends on Facebook, Twitter or any other social media website.  The world must know!

Please click here to sign our petition or here to make a contribution to continue our fight against forced abortion.

Gu Xianghong languishes in an “Ankang,” a special Chinese psychiatric hospital run by police, Radio Free Asia reports.  In a video quoted by RFA, Gu says, “They put electrodes on my temples and they were burned black.  They handcuffed me and chained my feet . . . My [entire family] and home have been ruined by the village government.”  They also subjected her to injections against her will.  According to the report, Gu has been jailed nine times in the Ankang since 1992.

Leaders of a Hubei-based human rights group, Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch, videotaped Gu from inside the Ankang and smuggled the video to Radio Free Asia.  The Rights group is mounting a campaign called “Mental Hospitals SOS,” to call attention to official psychiatric abuse in China.

Why has Gu repeatedly been jailed and tortured in an Ankang?  She sued the local government over “family planning issues.”

This is another example of the fact that the coercive enforcement of China’s One Child Policy causes more violence against women and girls than any other official policy on earth.  This violence takes the form of forced abortion, forced sterilization, infanticide, gendercide, sexual slavery and female suicide.  Now add to this grim list:  psychiatric torture for those who dare to challenge family planning abuses.

Gu is not the first person the Chinese Communist Party has jailed to silence them on family planning abuses.  Blind activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Chen Guangcheng exposed the fact that there were 130,000 forced abortions and sterilizations in Linyi County, Shandong Province, in 2005.  For this, he served a four year, three month jail sentence, during which time he was severely beaten and denied medical treatment.  He now remains under house arrest. To read a dozen expert reports documenting atrocities committed in the name of the One Child Policy, submitted in connection with the Congressional hearing on the One Child Policy of November 10, 2009, click here:  http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=congressional

According to reports by Human Rights Watch and others, in China, psychiatric abuse is shockingly common against dissidents, who are jailed and silenced under the guise of psychiatric treatment.  In one well-known case, Wang Wanxing was held in an Ankang for 13 years, for staging a brief, one-man pro-democracy protest on Tiananmen Square on the third anniversary of the massacre there.  He was released unexpectedly in 2005 and sent to Germany, where he was evaluated by a team of psychiatric experts, who found no mental disorder.  Wang told Human Rights Watch about the conditions he had endured.   He stated, for example, that he had been forced to watch staff members administer “electric acupuncture treatments” in which the current used was excruciating.  One inmate died of a heart attack during such a “treatment.”

According to a recent Epoch Times article, the Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group submitted a report to the United Nations, setting forth 1088 cases of  psychiatric torture used against Falun Gong practitioners.

Meanwhile, like countless others deemed to be destabilizing influences by the Chinese Communist Party, Gu remains imprisoned in a psychiatric torture chamber.  The brave Chinese human rights defenders who brought her case to the world are themselves victimized by local officials, who chased them as they escaped the Ankang with Gu’s videotape.

Gu should be released, immediately, along with all others trapped in Ankangs all over China, not because they have mental health issues, but simply to silence or break them.  Psychiatric abuse of One Child Policy victims, and of all others that the Chinese Communist Party views as a political threat, must stop.

Author’s Note:  Here are links to articles and reports relevant to this Op-Ed.

“Campaign Targets Psychiatric Abuse,” 10/27/10, Radio Free Asia

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/psychiatric-10272010125824.html

“Torture and Cruel Treatment in Health Settings,” [Undated] Human Rights Watch

http://www.hrw.org/node/87882

“China:  No Medical Reason to Hold Dissident,” 3/17/06, Human Rights Watch

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2006/03/16/china-no-medical-reason-hold-dissident

China:  Political Prisoner Exposes Brutality in Police-Run Mental Hospital,” 11/2/05, Human Rights Watch

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2005/10/31/china-political-prisoner-exposes-brutality-police-run-mental-hospital

“Chinese Police Inadvertently Admit Psychiatric Abuses,” The Epoch Times, 5/30/10

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/36505/

“Database Opens to Track Psychiatric Abuse in China,” 10/13/09, The Epoch Times

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23803&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=1

“Psychiatric Torture of Falun Gong Practitioners Widespread, Sas UN Submission,” Falun Dafa Information Center, 3/25/10

http://faluninfo.net/article/1005/

“Cries from China,” a new, half hour program on the One Child Policy, will be aired for the rest of this week and the week of November 8.  The host, Brad Mattes, interviews three people.  Steve Mosher talks about the One Child Policy in the ’80s; a victim of the Policy describes how she suffered three forced abortions; and Reggie Littlejohn describes current practices of forced abortion, forced sterilization and infanticide.  The first link below will take you to the Facing Life website, where you can watch the 30-minute episode online.  The second link will take you to the broadcast schedule, so you can watch the show on TV.

“Cries from China” – China’s One Child Policy 30 min. TV special 10/24/10

Facing Life Head On, Host Brad Mattes

http://www.facinglife.tv/episode/season_5/episode_2/episode_502.html

Facing Life Head On – TV Show Times

http://www.facinglife.tv/showinfo.htm

Have you seen this video of a Chinese woman forced to undergo abortion at 8 months?

A brave reporter sneaked into a Chinese hospital to speak with the woman, and later her husband, waiting outside in a car. It’s just 2 minutes long, and it’s not graphic, but is heartbreaking.  The woman only let herself be filmed from the neck down because she was “terrified of retribution.”  The film shows her with huge bruises on her arm.  Her husband described the scene in which she was captured.  “They held her arms behind her back, pushed her head against the door, kicked her stomach, and I don’t know whether they were trying to give her a miscarriage.”  The footage shows the jail cell where she was held as they gave her 8 month unborn baby a lethal injection.

This video is further evidence that China’s coercive family planning practices cause more violence against women than any other official policy on earth.  Thousands of women are being dragged out of their homes, thrown into “family planning” jail cells, strapped down to tables and forced to abort pregnancies that they want, even up to the ninth month.  Forced abortion and forced sterilization are China’s war on women. The Chinese Communist Party itself has reported an annual abortion rate of more than 13 million.  That’s more than 35,000 abortions a day.  How many of these are forced?

I applaud Al-Jazeera for capturing this remarkable footage and bringing it to the attention of the world.  I disagree, however, that this incident is unusual because it happened in “one of China’s most modern cities.”  China’s coercive birth control policy is strictly enforced, both in the cities and in the countryside.  The fines referenced by the report can reach 10 times a person’s annual salary.  Most people cannot afford to pay these fines.  What’s left for them?  Forced abortion or forced sterilization.  Despite these appalling human rights violations, the Chinese Communist party recently announced that it will continue its One Child Policy for “decades” to come.  (See the links below.)

China:  One Child Policy Will Stand.  CNN 9/27/10

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-09-27/world/china.one.child.policy_1_family-planning-policy-family-planning-commission-child?_s=PM:WORLD

Epoch Times – Of 13 Million Abortions in China, Most are Forced 8/31/09

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/21819/