FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: XI JINPING, POPE
FRANCIS AND THE 35th ANNIVERSARY OF CHINA’S ONE CHILD POLICY
September 25,
2015, marks the 35th anniversary of China’s brutal One Child
Policy. On that day, Chinese
President Xi Jinping will be in Washington DC on an official state visit, and
Pope Francis will be in New York addressing the United Nations.
Concerning
Pope
Francis, Reggie Littlejohn, president of Women’s Rights Without
Frontiers, stated,
“Pope Francis told the USCCB that the primary reason for his visit to
the
United States is ‘the cause of life and that of the family.’ Nothing on
earth is more destructive to
these causes than forced abortion under China’s One Child Policy, which
destroys
both children and families. It is our hope and prayer that Pope Francis –
in
his time at the United Nations and in his address to the World Meeting
of
Families in Philadelphia -- will remember the women and babies of China
who are
being forcibly aborted. One fifth of the population of the earth
suffers under the brutality of the One Child Policy. The coercive
enforcement of China's One Child Policy is one of the major attacks on
women and the family of our age."
Women’s Rights
Without Frontiers also has released an Open Letter to President Xi Jinping
condemning coercive population control under China’s One Child Policy. (See
attached, as well as the electronic link below.) The Open Letter chronicles the
history of savagely cruel and profoundly disturbing reports emerging from China
over the past year, including:
· A baby girl was rescued after being flushed
down a toilet
· A teacher from Guizhou was almost forcibly
aborted at five months
· Chinese officials reportedly are forced to
meet monthly abortion quotas
· Population control has China headed for a
demographic disaster
· The One Child Policy is the driving force
behind sexual slavery in China
The Letter argues
that the “reform” of 2014 – really, a minor modification – of the One Child
Policy has done little or nothing to end coercive population control or
gendercide.
The Letter also
discusses a recent study finding that multiple abortions leads to a greatly
increased risk of breast cancer.
Littlejohn stated: “The mayhem caused by China’s One Child
Policy continues unabated and has taken some troubling new twists, with people
being driven to mental breakdown, murder and suicide, as well as an obstetrician
using her position of trust in order to traffic babies. The minor modification of the Policy
that took place on January 1 of last year has failed to solve these
problems. The One Child Policy
does not need to be modified.
Forced abortion and all forms of coercive population control need to be
abolished.”
Littlejohn continued, “In my opinion, the Chinese
Communist Party will not relinquish coercive population control because 1) it
enables them to exert social control through terror; 2) it is a lucrative
profit center; 3) it provides an infrastructure of coercion that can be used to
crush dissent of any sort; and 4) it ruptures relationships of trust, so that
people cannot organize for change. I believe that the Chinese Communist Party
is maintaining its grip on power by shedding the blood of the innocent women
and babies of China.”
The
full Letter can be read here:
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