Contact: Reggie Littlejohn, President, Women's Rights Without Frontiers, 310-592-5722
WASHINGTON, May 30, 2014 /Christian Newswire/ -- On June 1,
China will celebrate "Children's Day" with children's art exhibitions
and performances. Meanwhile, no mention will be made of the fact that
China has "prevented" more than 400 million children from being born,
often by forced abortion, through its brutal One Child Policy. In
addition, millions of Chinese baby girls are being aborted, just because
they are girls.
Reggie
Littlejohn, president of Women's Rights Without Frontiers, stated, "The
people of China cherish their children, but the government of China is
crushing them. If the Chinese government truly cared about children, it
would stop forcibly aborting them. If they truly cared about girls, they
would take strong measures to stop the selective abortion of females.
It is hypocrisy for the Chinese government to sponsor a lavish media
event such as Children's Day, meanwhile destroying children behind the
scenes."
Women's
Rights Without Frontiers has launched a "Save a Girl" campaign to save
women from forced abortion and baby girls from gendercide, and to extend
a helping hand to families who are so poor that their daughters are at
risk. Our fieldworkers on the ground in China visit women who are
thinking of aborting or abandoning their baby girls. We offer them
monthly stipends for a year to help them keep their daughters.
One
recent example involves the mother of babies Bao-yo and Hui-ying (names
have been changed to protect their identities). When their mother
learned she was pregnant, she was thrilled. Soon, however, her in-laws
began pressuring her to have a boy, so she went to a local hospital to
have an ultrasound performed to determine the sex of the child. If it
were a boy, she would have the baby. If it were a girl, she would abort.
What would have been double her happiness turned to double despair: she
was pregnant with not one, but two girls. When her husband's family
found out the news, they were furious with their daughter-in-law. She
didn't know what to do.
But
one of Women's Rights Without Frontiers' undercover fieldworkers found
this frightened woman and told her about our "Save a Girl" campaign. The
pregnant mother and her husband could not believe an American
organization would care about their daughters. Our fieldworker showed
them pictures and told them stories of other families we have helped,
other families who chose to join with us in believing that girls matter
just as much as boys. The couple was convinced and overjoyed. Through
the aid of one year of WRWF monthly stipends, they chose to keep their
baby girls and soon precious twins were born. Now, the mother-in-law who
had been so furious has changed her attitude. She enjoys the two new
angels in her life and appreciates our help. We are saving lives and
changing the culture one family at a time.
To learn more about our "Save a Girl" Campaign click here.
