{"id":1404,"date":"2013-11-15T17:33:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T17:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2013-11-15T17:33:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T17:33:49","slug":"do-not-believe-reports-that-china-will-ease-its-one-child-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/do-not-believe-reports-that-china-will-ease-its-one-child-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Do not believe reports that China will “ease” its One Child Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Under the misleading headline, \u201cChina to Ease One-Child Policy,\u201d Xinhua reports that China will now lift the ban on a second child, if either parent is an only child. This minor reform will not \u201cease\u201d the One Child Policy. <\/span>It will merely tweak it. <\/span><\/p>\n

All the reasons for this adjustment are economic or demographic: <\/span>China\u2019s dwindling labor force, the country\u2019s growing elderly population, and the severe gender imbalance. <\/span>Completely absent from the discussion is the issue of human rights violations. <\/span>China has not promised to end forced abortion, forced sterilization or forced contraception. <\/span>The coercive enforcement of China\u2019s One Child Policy is its core.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers, stated: <\/span>\u201cWhile we are glad for the second babies who will be born under this adjustment, instituting a two-child policy in certain, limited circumstances will not end forced abortion or forced sterilization.<\/span><\/strong> The problem with the One Child Policy is not the number of children \u201callowed.\u201d\u00a0 Rather, it is the fact that the CCP is telling women how many children they can have and then enforcing that limit through forced abortion, forced sterilization and infanticide. <\/span><\/strong>Even if all couples were allowed two children, there is no guarantee that the CCP will cease their appalling methods of enforcement.\u00a0 Regardless of the number of children allowed, women who get pregnant without permission will still be dragged out of their homes, strapped down to tables and forced to abort babies that they want, even up to the ninth month of pregnancy.\u00a0 It does not matter whether you are pro-life or pro-choice on this issue.\u00a0 No one supports forced abortion, because it is not a choice.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFurther, instituting a two-child policy will not end gendercide.<\/span><\/strong> Indeed, areas in which two children currently are allowed are especially vulnerable to gendercide, the sex-selective abortion of females.\u00a0 According to the 2009 British Medical Journal study of 2005 national census data, in nine provinces, for \u201csecond order births\u201d where the first child is a girl, 160 boys were born for every 100 girls. In two provinces, Jiangsu and Anhui, for the second child, there were 190 boys for every hundred girls born. This study stated, \u201cSex selective abortion accounts for almost all the excess males.\u201d\u00a0 Because of this gendercide, there are an estimated 37 million Chinese men who will never marry because their future wives were terminated before they were born. This gender imbalance is a powerful, driving force behind trafficking in women and sexual slavery, not only in China, but in neighboring nations as well. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMoreover, the Chinese Communist Party periodically modifies the One Child Policy, but the coercion at its core remains. <\/span><\/strong>Reports of these tweaks \u2014 especially when mischaracterized by western media \u2014 throw the human rights world into confusion and blunt genuine efforts to end forced abortion in China.\u00a0 On September 9, 2010, for example, TIME ran the headline, \u201cChina Could Overthrow One-Child Rule.\u201d Myriad other news sources followed suit. <\/span><\/strong>This dramatic headline was based on the fact that China proposed to run a pilot program allowing some couples to have two children. \u00a0Soon afterwards, on September 25, 2010 \u2013 the 30th<\/sup> anniversary of the One Child Policy \u2013 a top population control official praised the policy and stated that China \u201cwill stick to the family planning policy in the coming decades.\u201d\u00a0 Moreover, despite this pilot program, numerous reports of late-term forced abortions have surfaced since 2010, including the forced abortion at seven months of Feng Jianmei in June 2012.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

For a discussion of forced abortion cases that have arisen in 2011-2012, read WRWF\u2019s Complaint to the UNCSW. http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=717<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

For a discussion of forced abortion and other egregious violations of human rights in connection with coercive population control, read WRWF\u2019s 2013 Complaint to the UNCSW.
\nhttp:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=1254<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Read the Xinhua Report: <\/span>\u201cChina to Ease One-Child Policy\u201d
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