European Parliament Adopts Resolution Condemning Forced Abortions
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution strongly condemning forced abortions and sterilizations under China's one child policy. The resolution specifically condemns the forced abortion at seven months of Feng Jianmei, which occurred last month in Shaanxi Province, China.
The image of Feng lying in a bed next to the body of her baby killed in the abortion has riveted the Internet for weeks. Ref. Source 5
New Case: Woman Forcibly Aborted in China at Eight Months
A human rights group that is one of the leading organizations monitoring the one-child policy in China reports that yet another case has been made public - this time of a woman who was forcibly aborted at eight months of pregnancy.
ChinaAid has learned that on April 6, 2012, in Xianyou county, Fujian province, which is notorious for its forced abortions, Wu Liangjie's wife was forcibly detained and abducted to a hospital. There, her eight-month old unborn child became a victim of a brutal forced abortion. Ref. Source 7
Chinese Woman Saves 30 Babies From Trash, Becomes Local Hero
A Chinese woman has become a local hero thanks in part to her work finding and raising babies she has found abandoned on the streets of Jinhua, where she lives. Lou Xiaoying is an 88-year-old woman suffering from kidney failure who has found the abandoned infants and children - some of them who were left in the trash.
She has her husband, who passed away 17 years ago, kept four of the children to raise and placed the others with loving families. Ref. Source 5
Chinese Population Control Officials Earn Bonuses for Abortions
Why are there so many forced abortions in China on women who fail to comply with the nation's family planning policy that allows couples to have only one child?
Dr Jackie Sheehan, senior fellow at the China Policy Institute and associate professor at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham in England appears to have the answer. Ref. Source 9
Forced Abortion Victims File Complaint Against One-Child Policy
In the last several years, women who regret their abortions have been active at the UN telling delegates and bureaucrats how abortion hurt them. Now they are spearheading a coalition that submitted a formal complaint to the UN Commission on the Status of Women against China over its One Child Policy.
They hope this "complaint will be the catalyst that will convict the Chinese government to abort their population control campaign by dropping the one child policy. Billions of Chinese women are suffering post traumatic stress disorder, millions are depressed and suicidal. Every 4 minutes a woman in China is killing herself." Ref. Source 4
Chinese Government Has Not Banned Forced Abortions, Despite Reports
On September 13, All Girls Allowed (AGA) sent out a press release with the bold title, "Chinese Government Bans Forced Abortion." We wish we could agree with our colleagues at AGA. Unfortunately, this time, we cannot.
AGA's claim that 'the Chinese Government issued a document to Family Planning offices that bans forced abortion and sterilization" is based on links to two Chinese documents and a call to a family planning official in Chonqing City. Ref. Source 3
China Expert: Forced Abortions Won't Stop Until One-Child Policy Gone
Steven Mosher, President of the Population Research Institute, has weighed in on speculation that forced abortions in China may be halted in some areas. He says there is very little chance of that happening. Ref. Source 9
Chinese Woman Beaten, Forced to Abort at Seven Months Speaks Out
A woman was forcibly aborted at seven months of pregnancy on June 3 in Shanxi Province, China has spoken out for the first time about the horror she experienced.
Feng Jianmei, was beaten and dragged into a vehicle by a group of family planning officials while her husband, Deng Jiyuan, was out working. Ref. Source 9