WASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 2011 /
Christian Newswire/ -- Women's Rights Without Frontiers has released a groundbreaking new report setting forth thirteen new, documented cases of coercion: forced abortion (including one woman at eight months and another carrying twins at 8 ½ months), forced sterilization, forced contraception, the use of quotas, Family Planning Police, Family Planning jail cells, the demolition of homes, and the use of "implication" (detention, torture and fining of relatives of "violators"). Several of these cases are documented with extensive photographs as well.
Women's Rights Without Frontiers released this report at the Congressional Hearing on the One Child Policy, held September 22, 2011, before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and Human Rights.
Commenting on the report, Littlejohn stated, "We have chosen to release the names of the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity, so that they can be held accountable before the world."
In addition to violence against women, the report and testimony also document violence against men.
Case Six of the report describes the practice of "Implication," which means that if anyone breaks the family planning policy, their entire extended family is held responsible. Both men and women can be detained, fined and tortured.
Case Seven gives the account of a couple with a second child in Henan Province. Family planning police smashed the father in the head with a bottle. He is now permanently disabled.
In Case Twelve, in Jiangsu Province, Family Planning Officials beat a farmer to death because his son was suspected of having an extra child.
In her testimony, Littlejohn also raised the case of blind activist, Chen Guangcheng, who was arrested in 2006 for helping to expose the Chinese government's use of forced sterilization and abortions to enforce its "One Child Policy." He has since been jailed, tortured and denied medical treatment. He is now languishing under house arrest, in poor health and cut off from the world. A short video on Chen and a petition to free him are
posted here.
Littlejohn concluded, "In China, a woman's body is not her own. It belongs to the state. For the Chinese Communist Party to act as 'womb police' and crush the life inside her is a heinous crime against humanity."
To view a short video, "Stop Forced Abortion – China's War on Women,"
click here.
To sign a petition against forced abortion,
click here.
