Forced Abortion
Abortion protagonists favour forced abortion when it suits them
ANYTHING BUT 'PRO-CHOICE'
The actions of Planned Parenthood and the population controllers prove conclusively that they are anything but "pro-choice." They are now irrevocably on record as favoring mandatory abortion and forced sterilisation for women who "breed excessively." In other words, PP and its contemptible ilk obviously favor not just 'abortion on demand,' but also 'abortion on command!' Here are some quotes which betray their true feelings. They have been far more careful in recent years in saying such things in public.
If parenthood is a right, population control is impossible. If parenthood is only a privilege, and if parents see themselves as trustees of the germ plasm and guardians of the rights of future generations, then there is hope for mankind."
Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine. Quoted in Robert G. Marshall. Bayonets and Roses: Comprehensive Pro-Life Political Action Guide. 1976
[This panel recommends] (1) mandatory abortion for any unmarried girl found to be within the first three months of pregnancy, and (2) mandatory sterilisation of any such girl giving birth out of wedlock for a second time."
The 1969 White House Conference on Hunger, panel entitled "Pregnant and Nursing Women and Infants," headed by Planned Parenthood's Dr. Alan Guttmacher and Dr. Charles U. Lowe of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's National Institutes of Health (NIH)
"Socialism should make it possible to regulate the reproduction of human beings. We should be able to produce human beings under a quota system, just as we produce bicycles and tons of steel."
Vice Premier Chan Muhua, Director,Chinese Family Planning Board, 1979
"I am not afraid to stick by my belief that only those couples who have the necessary material possessions and sources of income to ensure an economically secure and safe cradle should allow a pregnancy to progress to term."
Letter from Dr. Julius Adlam. Medical News, April 6, 1977. Described in Nancy B. Spannaus, Molly Hammett Kronberg, and Linda Everett (Editors). How to Stop the Resurgence of Nazi Euthanasia Today.
"I am a little discouraged and irritated at the welfare recipient families growing in size all the time. Those of us who work and pay taxes all the time shouldn't have to pay for these kids."
Hilmar G. Moore, chairman of the Board of Human Resources and Chairman of Richmond, Texas, in a February 27, 1980 UPI press report.
"[We recommend] compulsory abortion of out-of-wedlock pregnancies ... payments to encourage abortions ... and compulsory sterilisation for those who have had two children ... Coercion [in population programs] may become necessary. Such force may be required in areas where the pressure is the greatest, possibly in India and China."
Planned Parenthood panel, quoted by Richard D. Glasow, Ph.D. "Ideology Compels Fervid PPFA Abortion Advocacy." National Right to Life News, March 28, 1985
"I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now."
Dr. Cecil B. Jacobson, Chief of the Reproductive Genetics Unit of George Washington University Hospital
Demonstration against the one-child policy
CHINA'S FORCED ABORTION POLICY
The Chinese government introduced a one-child policy in 1979 to stop population growth. The policy is controversial both within and outside China because of the human rights issues it raises; because of the manner in which the policy has been implemented; and because of concerns about negative economic and social consequences.
The Economist reported in July 2011 that the policy was becoming more stringent:
"BEFORE 1997 they usually punished us by tearing down our houses for breaching the one-child policy...After 2000 they began to confiscate our children." Thus Yuan Chaoren, a villager from Longhui county in Hunan province, describing in Caixin magazine the behaviour of family-planning bureaucrats. According to Caixin, local officials would take "illegal children" and pack them off to orphanages where they were put up for adoption. Foreign adoptive parents paid $3,000-5,000 per child. The bureaucrats collected a kickback."
Read more of the Economist article
On October 10th 2010, Xiao Aiying, who was eight months pregnant, was dragged from her home in Siming in southwest China and forced to have an abortion. This is a part of the debate on abortion that the media are largely silent about. Watch the two minute news report above by Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan.
Numerous atrocities have been reported in the Western and Chinese Press but the policy and its enforcement is allowed to continue.
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Two Chinese hospital officials were condemned to death and four others were jailed for helping women avoid sterilisation required by China's coercive population control program. The six were convicted of taking bribes for providing 448 falsified sterilisation papers between 1988 and 1990 (Henan Legal News, 22 November 1993)
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A 1991 report entitled Chinese Whip Men to Force Abortions states: "The Shanghai Daily reported that the committee in Jihshan Village gathered 52 pregnant women and their husbands in a government office and gave them four days to sign abortion contracts. When ten couples resisted, the committee decoded to 'employ special measures'. The ten husbands were 'marched into an empty room and ordered to strip and lie face down.' According to the Daily, 'They were then beaten on the bare buttocks as many times as the number of days their wives were pregnant'. All the men subsequently signed the contract"
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Michael Weisskopf of The Washington Post gave a chilling account of late-term forced abortions: "In the Inner Mongolian capital of Hohot, however, hospital doctors practice what amounts to infanticide by a different name, according to a Hohot surgeon who would not allow his name to be used for fear of reprisal. After inducing labor, he revealed, doctors routinely smash the baby's skull with forceps as it emerges from the womb. In some cases, he added, newborns are killed by injecting formaldehyde into the soft spot of the head. He estimated that hundreds of babies die this way in his hospital every year."
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China Expert John Aird said in a 1993 article: "forcing pregnant women to attend 'study classes' away from their families until they agree to have abortions, imprisoning their husbands until their fugitive wives return for the required surgeries, cutting off food, water, and wages for non compliant families."
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Steven Mosher of the Population Research Institute has documented cases where a mother has given birth to twins, and has then immediately been faced with an inhuman 'Sophie's Choice' Party officials ask her which twin she wants to keep. The other twin is executed on the spot. He describes the plight of a woman who was unfortunate enough to have borne twins; "In one incident shortly after I left Guangdong Province, a young woman pregnant for the first time gave birth to twin boys. What should have been an occasion for rejoicing quickly turned tragic as the cadres asked her which one she wanted. "Both of them," she replied, but to no avail. One of the babies she could not and would not choose which was taken from her and put to death."
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In July 2006, The Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy reported that a woman pregnant with twins has fallen to her death while fleeing a forced abortion in a hospital in Himei. Li Shimei, who was seven months pregnant, was seized at her home and taken to the hospital in the eastern city of Hefei because she already had one child when she became pregnant.
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While forced or coerced abortion is officially outlawed, human rights groups outside China and some human rights activists within the communist country have said that with quotas laid on local officials, women and families are commonly intimidated or outright forced to abort. In 2005, despite "reforms" claimed by the Chinese government, Amnesty International reported that forced abortion continued to be common.
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In a Press Release in early April 2008, Radio Free Asia says it has learned of the case of a woman in Zhubao township in the eastern province of Shandong who was detained and beaten to force her pregnant sister to come out of hiding. A younger sister told the news service: "When she said she didn't know, they beat her up. We heard from inside sources that the beatings were very severe. We also heard that they beat one woman to death a few years ago, so we are all very worried about her."
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On 24 February 2011, Chinese prisoner of conscience, Mao Hengfeng, was re-arrested last week and shipped back to a labor camp for her struggle against China's one child policy. In March 2010, Hengfeng was sentenced to a year and a half of "re-education through labor" (RTL) for "disturbing public order." Hengfeng had been released on parole due to health concerns from her ill-treatment and torture during imprisonment on February 22, but was arrested and sent back to labor camps on February 24. Her whereabouts remains unknown. Read more on this disturbing story here: http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/chinese-anti-one-child-policy-activist-arrested-sent-to-labor-camps
Mao Hengfeng shows some of the marks she received while being tortured by the Chinese authorities
DEMOGRAPHIC NIGHTMARE
Demographers are now concerned that the one child policy has so intensified the Chinese preference for a boy as to have seriously distorted the balance of the sexes in favour of males. The sex ratio at birth (between male and female births) in mainland China reached 117:100 in the year 2000, substantially higher than the natural baseline, which ranges between 103:100 and 107:100.
According to a report by the State Population and Family Planning Commission, there will be 30 million more men than women in 2020, potentially leading to social instability. The correlation between the increase of sex ratio disparity on birth and the deployment of one child policy would appear to have been caused by the one-child policy.
Chinese government posters promoting the one-child policy
Campaign against forced Abortion
The Women's Rights without frontiers have made a harrowing video on the plight of Chinese women who violate the one-child policy. Watch the video below and check out their on-line petitions.
IT KEEPS GETTING WORSE...
A blind Chinese activist, who was freed from jail last year but remains under strict house arrest, was reportedly beaten senseless after releasing a video that documented his plight.
Watch this exclusive video which shows ill treatment and illegal detention of blind activist Chen Guangcheng, China Aid, 2/9/11
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