China’s One-Child Policy: Massive Crimes against Women, Supported by the Obama Administration

The Witherspoon Institute ^ | October 14, 2014 | Chris Smith

[Slyfox]

China’s One-Child policy, announced in 1979, is state-sponsored violence against women and children. The Nuremberg Nazi war crimes tribunal properly construed forced abortion as a crime against humanity. Nothing in human history compares to the magnitude of China’s thirty-five-year assault on women and children.

Hundreds of millions of lives have been exterminated.

Today, in China, rather than being given maternal care, pregnant women without birth-allowed permits are hunted down and forced to undergo an abortion. They are mocked, belittled, humiliated, and exploited. A mother has absolutely no right or legal standing to protect her unborn baby or herself from state-sponsored violence. There are no single moms in China—except those who somehow evade the family planning cadres and conceal their pregnancy. Beijing’s One-Child Policy bans single moms from obtaining government permission to carry the child to term.

For more than three decades, most brothers and sisters have been illegal. And the price for failing to conform to the limit of one child per couple is staggering. A Chinese woman who becomes pregnant without a government permit will be put under mind-bending pressure to abort. She knows that “out-of-plan” illegal children are denied education, health care, and marriage, and that fines for bearing a child without a birth permit can be ten times the average annual income of two parents. Families who can’t or won’t pay are jailed, or their homes are smashed.

The result of this policy is a nightmarish “brave new world” with no precedent in human history, where women are psychologically wounded, girls are the victims of sex-selective abortion, and children grow up without brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, or cousins. The United States government must take active steps to fight this atrocity.

[Slyfox]

Check especially the hyperlink on "woman who ran the forced abortion program."

[Slyfox]

Ping

[buffyt]

This must not be true everywhere in China. My neighbor is from China, moved here as an adult. She has a brother. She had not even heard of the One Child policy in China, I told her about it.

[Slyfox]

It must not be true because someone you know from China had never heard of it? Read the entire article. Chris Smith would not have put this on his number one agenda if it weren't true. The Witherspoon Institute would never have given it any room on their website if it were not true.

A little history. The world did not know about this until an American doctoral student, bumped into it as he was conducting research in some small Chinese villages in the early 90s. He was absolutely shocked. It was a secret program. The evidence is overwhelming including images, video, and victims being smuggled out of China.

What is happening in China right now is exactly what Obama would do if he could get away with it.

[DuncanWaring]

If he could get away with it, Obama would be importing Boko Haram and ISIS to continue in this country what they’re doing in Iraq and Nigeria.

[hecticskeptic]

This must not be true everywhere in China.

There are 'rules' for this and even though I've had it explained to me, I can't remember exactly what they are. I do know that when I was doing a training program in Beijing a few years ago, one of my translators told me a bit about it and in fact she and her husband were restricted to one child. One the other hand, one of the technical people who I worked with moved there from South Korea and she and her husband could have two children. Another couple I met originally lived in a rural district and it appeared to have some other level of restriction (I can't remember exactly what it was but I believe they were allowed to have at least two.) There are plenty of exemptions to the rule including entire ethnic populations. If one (or perhaps it is both) of the parents were from one child families, they were allowed to have more than one. There's another exemption that has to do with whether the firstborn is a boy or a girl, if a girl the couple is allowed to have a second child. There is another rule that has to do with whether the firstborn has some type of deformity.

[lavaroise]

No Chinese ever remember the Tienanmen massacre either

[Slyfox]

Also, if a man is unfaithful to his wife all the babies he makes count against the policy of whatever number has been decided for that couple.