Contact: Reggie
Littlejohn, President, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers
Email: reggielittlejohn@gmail.com
Cell: 310.592.5722
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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- China:
Two-Child Policy Will Not End Forced Abortion or Gendercide
According to a report in Bloomberg Businessweek, Cai
Fang, vice director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has stated: “We will fully relax the policy” in two
years, allowing all couples to have a second child. The reason:
China’s shrinking labor pool will cause the potential growth rate to
fall an average of 6.2 percent annually from 2016 to 2020.
Reggie
Littlejohn, President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, has
responded: “The Chinese Communist Party is finally waking up to the
fact
that, by instituting the brutal One Child Policy for economic reasons 34
year
ago, it unwittingly signed its own economic death warrant. China will
grow old before it grows
rich. China’s population problem
is not that it has too many people, but that it has too few young
people.”
“To say that China ‘will fully relax the policy’ is
extremely misleading,” Littlejohn continued. “Allowing all couples to have a second child does not
constitute a ‘full relaxation’ of the One-Child Policy. The problem with the
One Child Policy is not the number of children ‘allowed.’ Rather, it is the fact that the CCP is
telling women how many children they can have and then enforcing that limit
through forced abortion, forced sterilization and infanticide. Even if all couples were allowed two children, there is no
guarantee that the CCP will cease their appalling methods of enforcement. Women will still need a birth permit to
have their first and second child.
Women who get pregnant without permission will still be dragged out of
their homes, strapped down to tables and forced to abort babies that they want,
even up to the ninth month of pregnancy.
“Furthermore, instituting a two-child policy will not
end gendercide. Indeed, areas in
which two children currently are allowed are especially vulnerable to
gendercide, the sex-selective abortion of females. According to the 2009 British Medical Journal study of 2005
national census data, in nine provinces, for ‘second order births’ where the
first child is a girl, 160 boys were born for every 100 girls. In two
provinces, Jiangsu and Anhui, for the second child, there were 190 boys for
every hundred girls born. This study stated, ‘Sex selective abortion accounts for
almost all the excess males.’
Because of this gendercide, there are an estimated 37 million Chinese
men who will never marry because their future wives were terminated before they
were born. This gender imbalance is a powerful, driving force behind
trafficking in women and sexual slavery, not only in China, but in neighboring
nations as well.
“The Chinese Communist Party
periodically modifies the One Child Policy, but the coercion at its core
remains. Indeed, ‘One Child
Policy’ is a misnomer that causes confusion. There are numerous exceptions under which couples can have a
second child, but enforcement through forced abortion remains. It should be called China’s ‘Forced
Abortion Policy.’
“The coercive enforcement of China’s One Child Policy
continues to cause more violence toward women and girls than any other official
policy on earth, and any other official policy in the history of the
world. Those who care about women
and girls must continue to press with persistence until forced abortion and gendercide
are eradicated from the face of the earth.
“China’s Forced Abortion Policy
does not need to be modified. It
needs to be abolished.”
View WRWF’s “Save a Girl” campaign
to end gendercide and forced abortion.
http://
Sign a petition to end forced
abortion.
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Watch Stop Forced Abortion – China’s War on
Women! Video (4 mins)
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