Via National Right to Life News, the following information is from the office of Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey and Woman’s Rights Without Frontiers:*
China’s Coercive Population Control—Including Forced Abortion—to Continue Despite Plans to Modify Population Policy
“Even if the new policy allows couples to have two children—a claim that remains to be seen—the coercive population control policy is essentially unchanged,” said Rep. Chris Smith, a leading expert on US-China relations in the House of Representatives. “Children will continue to be killed if unauthorized by the government and huge fines imposed—the so-called social compensation fee—on families who evade detection and have so-called illegal children.”
Smith said, “China’s population control program is the most brutal, hated, and disastrous anti-woman, anti-child policy ever.
“Both the old and ‘new’ policies implement forced abortions, involuntary sterilizations and huge fines. These coercive methods result in a gender imbalance favoring males that drives human trafficking problems region-wide,” added Smith, who serves as the Chairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. “It remains highly restrictive because it still limits the size of Chinese families, which means it will be enforced coercively.
“The new policy also needs to be thoroughly vetted for dishonesty,” Smith said. “The Chinese government lies about its human rights record. In 2013 it claimed an end to the horrific ‘Reform Through Labor’ system of detention. But we know now that system has continued under different names.”
More reading here at Life Site News: ‘Pathetic’: Pro-life leaders react to China’s new Two Child Policy
*Graphics and more information at Women’s Rights Without Frontiers
