CONTACT: Reggie
Littlejohn, President, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers
PHONE: 310.592.5722
(Currently in Washington, D.C.)
EMAIL: reggielittlejohn@gmail.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
MARCH FOR LIFE D.C: MARCHING
TO SAVE BABY GIRLS AND ABANDONED WIDOWS IN CHINA
Attached
photo: Reggie Littlejohn with
daughter Anni Zhang and her father Lin Zhang march for babies and widows in
China at the 2019 March for Life
WASHINGTON, D.C. January 23, 2020.
Women’s Rights Without Frontiers will march to “End Gendercide” –
the sex-selective abortion of baby girls -- in China, at the March for Life in
Washington, D.C. on January 24. In
addition, WRWF will be marching on behalf of abandoned widows.
Reggie Littlejohn, President of WRWF, stated, “We believe that women have the right to give birth to their
daughters without being pressured to selectively abort them. And we also believe that elderly women
have the right to live out their days with dignity, with food on the table
every day, knowing that someone cares about them in their old age – even if
that person lives on the other side of the earth.”
The sex-selective abortion or abandonment of baby girls has continued
under the Two Child Policy. For
example, a newborn baby girl was found
abandoned at the bottom of a six-foot wall in a trash-filled courtyard in
Fuzhou City, Fujian Province on Friday, June 1, 2018, International Children’s
Day. She was lying next to
her placenta with her umbilical cord still attached. Although no one witnessed how the newborn got into the
courtyard, it is believed she was thrown over the wall, as she was suffering
from major injuries consistent with such trauma: a fractured skull, bleeding in the brain, and injuries to
her heart and lungs. The
neighbors who found her called the police, who took the infant to the
hospital. Read the original report
and watch a video
here.
According to the new Congressional-Executive Commission in China Report,
released on January 8, 2020, “Local-level officials reportedly continue to enforce
compliance with family planning policies using methods including heavy fines,
job termination, and coerced abortion.”
According to one U.N. estimate, up to 200 million women are missing in
the world today because of sex-selective abortion. This gendercide has created a gender imbalance in China,
where there are an estimated 37 million more males living than females. This gender imbalance is in turn
driving human trafficking and sexual slavery, within China and from the
surrounding countries.
WRWF’s “Save a Girl” Campaign has saved hundreds of baby girls
from sex-selective abortion or abandonment.
At the other end of life, China
has the highest female suicide rate in the world. According to a State Department Report, 590 women end their
lives every day in China. China
also has a skyrocketing rate of senior suicide, which has increased 500% in the
past 20 years. The One Child Policy has destroyed the family structure in
China. In the past, the Chinese
enjoyed large families and it was not a burden for children and grandchildren
to support the elderly. Now many
elderly are completely abandoned and destitute, especially elderly widows. And the sad solution for many is to end
their lives.
Littlejohn concluded, “We at Women’s Rights Without
Frontiers are committed to helping Chinese women at every stage of their
lives. We help baby girls to be
born, instead of being selectively aborted or abandoned because they are
girls. Likewise, we help their mothers
defend themselves against the pressure to abort or abandon their baby
girls. And now we are extending
help to elderly widows, to ease their suffering and give them dignity and new
hope in the twilight season of their lives. We do this because of the infinite value of each human life,
from beginning to end.”
Learn more about the Save a
Widow Campaign here.
Watch the “Save a Girl”
Campaign video
here.
Watch the “Save a Widow”
Campaign video
here.
Related Link
Video: Abandoned Newborn Girl Found in Filthy
Courtyard in China
