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Liu Xinwen was forcibly aborted at six months of pregnancy. Photo credit: Sky News
International Women’s Day a Travesty for Chinese Women and Baby Girls
International
Women’s Day will not be celebrated by hundreds of millions of Chinese
women who live under the iron fist of the One Child Policy, many of whom
have been victims of forced abortion up to the ninth month of
pregnancy, as well as forced sterilization. They have had a fundamental
right stripped away: the right to bear children.
WRWF
President Reggie Littlejohn stated, “I find it impossible to celebrate
any advancement of women’s rights anywhere on earth, when one out of
five women in the world is subject to a regime that will strap them down
to tables, thrust its hands into their wombs and rip their little ones
out, as these women scream and plead for the lives of babies they
desperately want. The women’s movement can claim no real victory so long
as this scourge against women continues to blight the face of the
earth. Chinese women cannot stand up against forced abortion without
risking detention, for themselves and for their families. It is time for
all women to rise up for our sisters in China and be a voice for the
voiceless.”
Moreover, an estimated 200 million women will not be
celebrating International Women’s Day today, because they are not alive.
They were selectively aborted just because they were girls – victims of
“gendercide.” Son preference runs amok in both China and India; both
countries suffer from a vast gender imbalance, which in turn is driving
human trafficking and sexual slavery.
Littlejohn continued, “The message of sex-selective
abortion is that girls and women do not deserve to live. The selective
elimination of 200 million women demands the passionate outrage of the
women’s movement. Indeed, eliminating the coercive enforcement of
China’s One Child Policy – and the elimination of son preference and
sex-selective abortion -- should be the number one priority of the
international women’s movement.”
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