{"id":196,"date":"2011-05-31T13:30:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T13:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2019-03-28T01:08:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T01:08:33","slug":"you-are-funding-forced-abortions-in-china-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/you-are-funding-forced-abortions-in-china-2\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are Funding Forced Abortions In China"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You are funding forced abortions in China.\u00a0 So am I.\u00a0 Not only elective abortions.\u00a0 Forced abortions.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t matter whether you are pro-life or pro-choice on this issue.\u00a0 No one can support forced abortion, because it is not a choice.<\/p>\n

What do I mean by \u201cforced abortions\u201d? \u00a0Here\u2019s a short video about a young, Chinese woman who was dragged off the street, strapped to a table and forced to abort at seven months.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JjtuBcJUsjY<\/a>.\u00a0 You can read many more accounts of forced abortion, forced sterilization and infanticide under China\u2019s brutal One Child Policy here.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/index.php?nav=congressional<\/a><\/p>\n

According to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China report, released on October 10, 2010, violators of China\u2019s One Child Policy continue to be victims of \u201cforced sterilization, forced abortion, arbitrary detention, and other abuses.\u201d
\nThe One Child Policy has also led to many other serious human rights violations. I\u2019ll name just three:<\/p>\n

1. Gendercide.<\/strong> Because of the traditional preference for boys, girls are disproportionately subject to abortion, abandonment and infanticide.<\/p>\n

2. Sexual Slavery.<\/strong> Because of the selective elimination of baby girls, there are now an estimated 37 million more males than females living in China today.\u00a0 This severe gender imbalance is a powerful, driving force behind trafficking in women and sexual slavery from nations surrounding China.<\/p>\n

3. Female Suicide.<\/strong> According to the World Health Organization, China has the highest female suicide rate of any country in the world. \u00a0Approximately 500 Chinese women end their lives each day. \u00a0Could this extraordinary suicide rate be related to the trauma of enduring a forced abortion or forced sterilization?<\/p>\n

How does this affect us? \u00a0We are helping finance the infrastructure used in coercive family planning in China.\u00a0 The international community funds UNFPA (United Nations Family Planning Fund), as well as IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation), and Marie Stopes International.\u00a0 These organizations are operative \u201cabortion providers\u201d in China.\u00a0 \u00a0In 2001, the US cut funding to UNFPA because an investigation, headed by then Secretary of State Colin Powell, found that UNFPA was complicit in the coercive implementation of China\u2019s One Child Policy.\u00a0 In 2008, the US State Department reaffirmed that determination, and yet we restored funding in 2009.\u00a0 UNFPA is also funded by many other nations.<\/p>\n

In addition, the IPPF and Marie Stopes are working hand in hand with the Chinese Communist population control machine, which has been notorious in its excesses.\u00a0 The IPPF website openly declares, \u201cThe China Family Planning<\/acronym> Association (CFPA) plays a very important role in China’s family planning<\/acronym> programme.\u00a0 It supports the present family planning<\/acronym> policy of the government . . .\u201d\u00a0 Meanwhile, the website for Marie Stopes International, lists as \u201cmajor partners\u201d the Family Planning Commissions of several provinces in China.<\/p>\n

Just last week, US citizens voted to cut UNFPA funding under the new YOUCUT program.\u00a0 http:\/\/majorityleader.gov\/YouCut\/P2_W1.htm<\/a> Because of this vote, Rep. Renee Ellmers will introduce legislation to cut UNFPA, saving $400 million over the next ten years.\u00a0 The bill still needs to pass through committee and be passed by the House to become effective, so you still have time to contact your representative about it.<\/p>\n

An admirer of American democracy once observed, \u201cAmerica is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.\u201d \u00a0May we not lose our goodness, and hence our greatness as a nation by funding forced abortions in China.<\/p>\n

To sign an international petition against forced abortion and sexual slavery in China, click here.<\/p>\n

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

To watch a four-minute video, \u201cStop Forced Abortion in China!\u201d click here.<\/p>\n

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You are funding forced abortions in China.\u00a0 So am I.\u00a0 Not only elective abortions.\u00a0 Forced abortions.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t matter whether you are pro-life or pro-choice on this issue.\u00a0 No one can support forced abortion, because it is not a choice. … 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":[22,5,49,30,37,7,16,15,36,6,18,17,42,43,24,44,8,34,33,51,32,31,35,19,1,39,25,23,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-china","category-chinas-one-child-policy","category-coerced-abortion","category-crime-against-humanity","category-forced-abortion","category-forced-sterilization","category-gendercide","category-human-dignity","category-human-rights","category-human-trafficking","category-infanticide","category-international-planned-parenthood-federation","category-ippf","category-life","category-marie-stopes","category-one-child-policy","category-pro-choice","category-pro-life","category-renee-ellmers","category-reproductive-health","category-reproductive-rights","category-right-to-choose","category-sexual-slavery","category-uncategorized","category-unfpa","category-women","category-womens-rights","category-youcut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","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=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2777,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/2777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}