{"id":47,"date":"2011-01-20T14:53:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T14:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2021-02-18T20:56:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T20:56:34","slug":"reggie-littlejohn-speaks-at-capitol-hill-press-conference-11811","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/reggie-littlejohn-speaks-at-capitol-hill-press-conference-11811\/","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Obama and Pres. Hu, Forced Abortion in China Must Be Stopped!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On January 18, Reggie Littlejohn spoke at the Capitol Hill press conference on Chinese human rights called by Congressman Chris Smith.\u00a0 Littlejohn urged President Obama to discuss human Rights with President Hu Jintao during his visit to DC.\u00a0 Here is a transcript of her remarks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pres. Obama:\u00a0 China\u2019s Forced Abortion is Violence Against Women<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 After the forced abortion, she lay alone and unconscious in an operating room in the family planning center.\u00a0 Sensing something was wrong, her fianc\u00e9 burst into the room at 3:00 a.m. to find her bleeding from the eyes, nose, ears and mouth.\u00a0 Even so, the family planning police refused to call for emergency help, until her family insisted.\u00a0 Help arrived too late.\u00a0 Liu Dan died, along with her full term baby.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s One Child Policy causes more violence against women and girls than any other official policy on earth.\u00a0 It is China\u2019s war on women.\u00a0 I say to President Obama, any discussion of women\u2019s rights, or human rights, would be a charade if forced abortion in China is not front and center.\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. \u00a0Rather, the Chinese forced abortion policy is systematic, institutionalized violence against women.<\/p>\n

The Chinese Communist Party says that the One Child Policy is none of our business \u2013 that it\u2019s their internal affair.\u00a0 This argument is a smoke screen.\u00a0 First, the Chinese government has signed several international treaties that protect the rights of women and families.\u00a0 Forced abortion violates these treaties.<\/p>\n

Second, the One Child Policy has given rise to gendercide, the sex-selective abortion of baby girls.\u00a0 Because of this, there are an estimated 37 million more men than women in China \u2013 men who will never marry because their future wives were aborted before they were born.\u00a0 This gender imbalance is the driving force behind human trafficking and sexual slavery.\u00a0 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 \u201cbare branches.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not an internal affair for China.\u00a0 It is an international issue, and it calls for an international response.\u00a0 Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers announces that we have an online petition to stop forced abortion and sexual slavery in China.\u00a0 We already have more than 5000 signatures from 88 countries, all over the world.\u00a0 So, through this petition, I represent more than 5000 people from 88 countries who are saying with one voice:\u00a0 President Hu Jintao, stop forced abortion in China!<\/p>\n

Another thing the CCP would like the world to believe is that ethnic minorities are exempt from the One Child Policy.\u00a0 This is pure propaganda.\u00a0 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\/<\/a> 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<\/a><\/p>\n

How does forced abortion in China affect us as Americans?<\/p>\n

CNN\u2019s 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.\u00a0 Turner says that its enforcement is not \u201cdraconian.\u201d\u00a0 This statement is demonstrably false.\u00a0 The One Child Policy is enforced through forced abortion, forced sterilization and infanticide.\u00a0 Adopting it world wide would hurl women\u2019s rights back to the dark ages.\u00a0 Ted Turner, if you\u2019re watching, I challenge you to debate me on this — if you dare to have a substantive exchange on this subject.<\/p>\n

Forced abortion in China affects us as Americans because we\u2019re 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.\u00a0 Why should American tax dollars subsidize forced abortion in China?<\/p>\n

In China, a woman\u2019s body is not her own.\u00a0 It belongs to the state.\u00a0 A woman\u2019s womb is the most intimate part of her body \u2013 physically, emotionally and spiritually. For the Chinese Communist Party to force its bloody hand right into a woman\u2019s womb and crush the life inside her is a heinous crime against humanity.\u00a0 I call upon President Obama \u2013 if you care about women\u2019s rights, if you care about human rights \u2013 tell President Hu Jintao, FORCED ABORTION IN CHINA MUST BE STOPPED.<\/p>\n

To sign a 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 video exposing the truth about the One Child Policy, click here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JjtuBcJUsjY&feature=rec-LGOUT-exp_fresh+div-1r-1-HM<\/a><\/p>\n

To watch the Press Conference on C-Span, click here. \u00a0(Littlejohn’s remarks are at 57:35 to 1:04)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/program\/HumanRightsinChina10<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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