{"id":1119,"date":"2013-05-06T07:44:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T07:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2013-05-06T07:44:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T07:44:16","slug":"reggie-littlejohn-and-bi-partisan-members-of-the-united-states-congress-stand-against-gendercide-on-capitol-hill-screen-%e2%80%9cit%e2%80%99s-a-girl%e2%80%9d-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/reggie-littlejohn-and-bi-partisan-members-of-the-united-states-congress-stand-against-gendercide-on-capitol-hill-screen-%e2%80%9cit%e2%80%99s-a-girl%e2%80%9d-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Reggie Littlejohn and Bi-Partisan Members of the United States Congress Stand Against Gendercide on Capitol Hill, Screen \u201cIt\u2019s a Girl\u201d Film"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reggie Littlejohn condemns gendercide at the U.S. Capitol Hill screening of the "It's a Girl" film<\/p><\/div>\n

Washington, D.C. <\/span>Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers partnered with Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA), Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC), and the Coalition Against Gendercide in a bipartisan screening of the \u201cIt\u2019s a Girl\u201d film at the United States Capitol Visitors Center, in conjunction with the Tom Lantos Commission on Human Rights. Shot on location in India and China, \u201cIt\u2019s a Girl\u201d exposes the fact that <\/span>there are up to 200 million women missing in the world today due to gendercide.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Reggie Littlejohn emphasized the connection between gendercide and forced abortion: <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cForced abortion is not a choice. <\/span>More often than not, gendercide is not a choice either. <\/span>There is a strong correlation between sex-selective abortion and coercion. <\/span>Crushing social, economic, political and personal pressures in cultures with a strong son preference trample women carrying girls. <\/span>All too often, women in these cultures do not \u201cselect\u201d their daughters for abortion. <\/span>They are forced.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Littlejohn also highlighted the hope offered by WRWF\u2019s \u201cSave a Girl\u201d Campaign in rural China: <\/span>\u201cWe are stopping gendercide, one baby girl at a time. <\/span>We have field workers in China who reach out to women who have had an ultrasound, learned that they are pregnant with a girl, and are planning to abort or abandon her. <\/span>A field worker will visit that woman and say, \u2018Don\u2019t abort your baby just because she\u2019s a girl. <\/span>She\u2019s a precious daughter. <\/span>We will give you a monthly stipend for a year, to help you support her.\u2019 <\/span>The practical support we offer empowers these women to keep their daughters.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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WRWF\u2019s \u201cSave a Girl\u201d is the official \u201cIt\u2019s a Girl\u201d film\u2019s action campaign for China.<\/span><\/p>\n

Learn more about the Save a Girl Campaign here:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/index.php?nav=end-gendercide-and-forced-abortion<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Cong. Chris Smith states that gendercide is a "crime against women" at the U.S. Capitol Hill screening of "It's a Girl" <\/p><\/div>\n

Rep. Chris Smith stated, \u201cGendercide is a crime against women, a gender crime that has no parallel or precedent in all of human history.\u201d <\/span>Rep. Smith has held dozens of Congressional hearings on Chinese human rights, particularly forced abortion under the One Child Policy. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Rep. Moran continued, \u201cTo the extent that we stand by the sidelines and don\u2019t do anything about [gendercide] makes us culpable as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe talk about wanting to find more common ground in Washington DC,\u201d added Rep. Meadows. <\/span>\u201cAnd this is an issue where Democrats and Republicans can absolutely agree. <\/span>Gendercide must be stopped.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Littlejohn and the \u201cIt\u2019s a Girl\u201d filmmakers also collaborated in screening the film around the world, including the British Parliament, the European Parliament and the United Nations.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Donate to the \u201cSave a Girl\u201d campaign:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/index.php?nav=give<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sign a petition against forced abortion in China:<\/span><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/index.php?nav=sign_our_petition<\/a>
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Learn more about the \u201cIt\u2019s a Girl\u201d film and watch the 3-minute trailer:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.itsagirlmovie.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n


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Washington, D.C. Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers partnered with Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA), Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC), and the Coalition Against Gendercide in a bipartisan screening of the \u201cIt\u2019s a Girl\u201d film at the United States Capitol … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7,15,20,124,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chris-smith","category-forced-abortion","category-gendercide","category-reggie-littlejohn","category-save-a-girl","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}