Special Report
China’s One Child Policy: Two Cases
A real war on women that the U.S. should not be underwriting.
During these last few weeks, media reports about Chen Guangcheng’s arrival in New York and China’s brutal one-child policy continue to raise awareness in the United States about a real war on women. China’s one-child policy is supported by the UN and is sponsored by U.S. tax dollars through UNFPA. In an election year, we need to educate our elected officials and American citizens about why this real war against women must end. Consider these two cases.
Cao Ruyi Returns Home After Five-Day Detention, Still
Ordered to Undergo Abortion
After
several days of domestic and international media and public
pressure, Cao Ruyi, a pregnant woman who had been detained for five
days by Hongshan District, Changsha Family Planning Commission, was
allowed to return home. However, China’s government continues to be
a threat to forcibly terminate her pregnancy.
Around 9 o’clock on June 10, after performing an ultrasound exam on Cao Ruyi in the Hunan Province Women and Children’s Hospital, Family Planning officials planned to detain her at the Changsha County Women and Children’s Hospital. Despite heavy coercion, Cao resisted, and remained determined to let her child live. Family Planning officials brought her to one of three permanently rented rooms in the Beifu Hotel. They forced her to sign the Order to Terminate Pregnancy within Set Time, with the stipulation that she must have an abortion before October 16. Past that date, she would be subject to the fine of the “end of pregnancy collateral.” Cao signed the document solely because of her utter exhaustion. She returned home at noon accompanied by a cousin and a WRIC volunteer.
Cao Ruyi told the WRIC volunteer that the “collateral” was set by the Family Planning Commission at between 2,000 to 10,000 yuan. The fine imposed on her was 10,000 yuan, just for the pregnancy. If she did not pay the fine in time, the birth of the child would mean fines of over 100,000 yuan. Cao was determined to have the child. Cao was unemployed. Her husband had to support the whole family including Cao’s mother-in-law. The financial situation of the family was difficult. Paying the fines would be impossible.
Sadder yet is that WRIC has received information that Cao Ruyi has been quietly threatened by a local Family Planning officer, Yan Zhang, who told Cao that she has “friends in the military.” Cao and her family are living in fear of what acts of revenge the government may take against them. They are also worried about the prenatal and perinatal care that may or may not be available.
WRIC has found a place where Cao and her husband can live in safety from government officials until her child is born. She remains in hiding with her husband. If her husband were not in hiding, government officials would likely capture him and torture him until he agreed to help get his wife aborted.
Feng Jianmei Forcibly Aborted at Seven
Months
Feng Jinmei was 7 months pregnant with her
second daughter. Because Feng Jinmei is poor and her family is
unable to pay the fine of 40,000 yuan that was imposed on her,
Family Planning officials forcibly aborted Jianmei. On June 2,
while her husband, Deng Jiyuan, was at work, Feng Jinmei fought
against Family Planning officials as they tried to force her into a
car. She was beaten and dragged into the vehicle, and forcibly
admitted into a hospital where labor was induced. The body of her
aborted daughter was savagely left next to her on her bed.
[Editor’s note: A picture of this scene was included with
this submission, but is too graphic to be published.]
Government officials in China remain outraged that stories and photos of this case have been released to the public, but families in China are all too familiar with the cruelties that precede and follow many abortions in China.
Feng Jinmei remains under medical treatment in Ankang City, Zhenpin County, Zengjia Town, Yupin village. Her husband remains tormented because his family’s life has been shattered.
China’s Procurator officials went to the home of Deng Jiyuan to demand answers about how the photo was made available to the media, and to forbid them to speak to the media.
Crimes Against Humanity
Women in China
have no reproductive rights. No permit, no pregnancy. There is no
right for women to give birth. Those are the rules. Many Americans
believe that those involved in should be prosecuted crimes against
humanity.
Unlike Vice President Biden, we all need to second guess China’s one-child policy, especially since China has no plans to end this policy for at least another generation. Aside from the personal human suffering each aborted woman must endure, Americans need to know about the suffering that exists for the spouses and parents and most families in China who can no longer have brothers and sisters and will never be aunts and uncles.
As Americans, we need to appeal to our President and to all of the Members of Congress, especially during this election year, to condemn forced abortion, forced sterilization, and coerced family planning in China. We need to appeal to American taxpayers to stop funding UNFPA with millions and millions of U.S. dollars that sponsor these programs.
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Appleby| 6.15.12 @ 6:36AM
Why are the "Women's Right To Choose" legions not right at the front of the barricades in this case, where women's free choices are being savagely overturned?
Or is it that this particular gang of women believe that a woman should only be allowed to "choose" abortion? Do they, in fact, stand shoulder to shoulder with the Chinese government?
Stephanie| 6.15.12 @ 7:13AM
Coming to a state near you, courtesy of our own Angel of Death, Kathleen Sebelius!
Just wait folks and who will be the first to wail, "what happened? I thought you for a woman's right to choose!" Yep, those obama lovers who thought he loved them cause he gave 'em "free birth control and abortions"
It all comes at a price.
Brooksifier | 6.15.12 @ 4:06PM
China sounds like a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
At any rate, it's all a no-win situation. Don't know enough about China, but in America the answer is probably abstinence counseling for those youth (and there are many) so inclined-- believe it or not there are many youth more interested in art, or going to Med school-- or a hundred other things--than sex. They may not be the majority yet they do number in the millions.
Or perhaps rather than funding birth control pills, give out saltpeter pills! probably the only way that can have a degree of success.
TLP| 6.15.12 @ 4:09PM
Actually, you COULDN'T live in China, if you're a Baby Girl, in your Mother's Womb?
Brooksifier | 6.15.12 @ 4:32PM
Then I wont ever go there.
Going to countries such as China isn't the problem-- it is getting out in one piece! or sneaking out.
My cousin taught English there in the '80s. To keep him teaching English at a military academy, the Chinese stole his passport, so the cousin had to go to Taiwan in the middle of the night to escape.
Think I'll stay in America-- bad for you but good for me..
TLP| 6.15.12 @ 7:20AM
This what happens when you are a DEBTOR. You have to Sit Down, and Shut Up, where the one giving you our money, is concerned.
$5,000,000,000,000 in 3 Years. That buys a lot of
Shuttin Up. But, then, why would ANYONE think, for a second, that these Leftist would give a Flying Fck, about a buncha BABIES, born, killed, or otherwise. Theirs has always been a Philosophy of Death.
The Chinese are only doing what Karl Marx first pondered, when he wrote that he thought that if he could just get rid of - Mass Murder - 300 Million Human Beings, that would be an acceptable means of simplifying the implementation of his idea of World Wide Communism.
They LOVE Murder, be it in the Camps, in the Gulags, in the Prisons and Dungeons, or in the Fields of Cambodia.
Their Heroes are ALL Mass Murderers, to one degree or another.
Lenin, Stalin, Castro and Che. Ho Chi Min, Pol Pot, Mugabe, and The Shining Path.
The've been Marching in the streets for the Soviets, Vietnam, Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, for Decades.
The Muslim Boy who leads them, now, has just taken the Political Phrase "FOREWARD" from the greatest Mass Murderer of his own people - Mao Tse Tung - and made it his own.
Margaret Sanger fought for the RIGHT to Murder Unborn Babies, and she is a GOD to these people.
Plus, his own Medical Czar - Ezekial Emanuel - gets a Rod in his pants over the One Child Policy.
Unless you're a CONVICTED MURDERER, these MFers don't give a Fck.
Von Mises Jr| 6.15.12 @ 7:47AM
I would just remind all of one statement by our Dear Leader: "Mr. Obama has told people that it would be so much easier to be the president of China. As one official put it, “No one is scrutinizing Hu Jintao’s words in Tahrir Square.”
RCV| 6.15.12 @ 12:39PM
The Obama administration expressly criticized China’s policy in a State Department report saying that one of China’s “principal human rights problems” is its “coercive birth limitation policy, which in some cases resulted in forced abortion or forced sterilization.” The report details specific instances of coersion and other heavy-handed tactics used while enforcing the policy.
Kerry Kennedy, head of the Robert Kennedy
Center for Justice and Human Rights, lambasted China's brutal policy in a column on Huffpo last month. Amnesty International has been consistent and vocal in its opposition to the policy.
Notwithstanding Biden's gaffe last summer, which the administration and most Democrats quickly disavowed, the reality is that liberal Democrats have been among the sharpest critics of China's human rights violations, including its repressive one-child policy and forced abortions.
Glad that TAS has gotten on the bandwagon at last.
Truth to Power| 6.15.12 @ 2:39PM
Democrats push abortion, 50 million of them. They have no room to lecture the Chinese. I would think you would be working full time trying to save your worthless state. One third of its population is on welfare is damping the hopes of the dynamo you brag on. It looks more like Detroit in the middle part of the disease. Forward to Detroit.
RCV| 6.15.12 @ 10:17PM
You obviously don't spend much time in California. It's still the best and most exciting place to live, which is why the young intellectuals and entrepreneurs keep coming here. Please, tell us all what bucolic paradise you (yawn) live? in.
The only difference between you and the Chinese is how you want to control women's bodies and make their decisions for them.
Truth to Power| 6.16.12 @ 1:29PM
One third of California's population is on welfare. Entrepreneurs are going elsewhere. Forward to Detroit. You inherited something good and ruined it.
Pushing the young and poor into abortions is what you do. First you tell that there are really no consequences to sex and then it turns out that the consequences to sex are murdering their young. You imagine that your hands are clean but they have blood all over them.
RCV| 6.17.12 @ 1:18AM
California will continue to attract bright, energetic, entrepreneurial, tolerant young people, because the alternative is living amongst intellectually vapid and narrow-minded people like you.
Truth to Power| 6.17.12 @ 9:25AM
California will continue its downward spiral because of functional idiots like yourself. As to young people they will continue to leave your state so they can do things like own a home and raise a family. Welfare types will continue to flow to California until its ultimate collapse. Forward to Detroit. It once thought of itself as a marvelous place.
RCV| 6.17.12 @ 8:13PM
This morning, my wife and I drove down Pacific Coast Hwy, where people were already enjoying a fine summer beach morning. We headed downtown to meet our daughter for Fathers Day breakfast by Staples Center and LA Live, in a revitalized downtown populated by thousands of young artists and professionals. When the new Football Stadium is built next year, it will add to the mix of condos, music venues, Disney Concert Hall, the new Broad Art Center across from MOCA, all new additions the last several years. Our daughter, a bright young set and costume designer loves living in the new vibrant downtown.
Tonight we'll join my son, who's home from
college at Michigan, working this summer as an
intern in an international patent law firm whose
Asian practice is booming. His Japanese language
skills are a big plus in LA, hub of the growing
Pacific economic region. He and his Chinese
girlfriend will return here after college (she has
an LA job offer from Goldman Sachs). After dinner at a spectacular Italian place in Santa Monica Canyon, we'll attend a dance performance in
Hollywood by a young talented troupe - my
daughter designed the costumes and set.
I'll give a Father's Day call to my brother, pastor at a bible-based Christian Church in Silicon Valley, whose diverse young congregation is booming with an influx of young engineers, entrepreneurs and families.
Another awful weekend in this hellhole we call California.
Truth to Power| 6.17.12 @ 10:36PM
This sounds like a hilarious sitcom. You have all the elements for diversity except maybe a black friend and a gay person. I think there is a gay person anyway. California is full of lots of stupid people and smart people who can't add, the functionally idiotic. You know who you are RCV.
By the way, such a busy day and you had time to write your pretend blog. I love it.
pnmnm| 6.15.12 @ 11:45PM
Like most of the words that come out of this administration and the mouths of liberal Democrats, they are false and only for public consumption. This administration is hell bent on population control in the United States. All you have to do is look at the people appointed. HIs science advisor is John Holdren, collaborator of Paul Ehrlich on the overpopulation scares of the 70's and 80's. Despite his testimony, he still holds the view that government should do what it can to control the population. Kathleen Sebellius is nothing but a shill for the abortion industry. Just look what the administration supports, free contraception and abortion at home and abroad and government health care. Government control of health care is the perfect way to force population control. A limit on the number of pregnancies that will be covered by government insurance (the only one they desire) is the simplest and sneakiest means for population control. Who can afford to pay for a hospital stay and doctor's fees without the insurance? One or two children per family is in the cards if this administration continues another 4 years.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 6.15.12 @ 8:43AM
When one considers human freedom and dignity, the example supplied by the Chinese One Child policy is one of the starkest examples of the power of the state versus the power of the individual. The wisdom and genius of our Founding Fathers in their attempt to craft a Constitution that would limit the power of government does not begin to contemplate the kind of a system where officials at any level would feel empowered to force a married couple to abort a child at seven months (or at any point, for that matter). Despite the embrace of some aspects of capitalism which are necessary for prosperity, the Red Chinese government’s relationship with its people as demonstrated by the One Child Policy is thinly disguised human bondage.
CJW| 6.15.12 @ 11:04AM
It is estimated that the Chinese Commies have killed at least 60 million of their own through the "Cultural Revolution" of the 1960's, "re-education" camps, and in general imposing their will on the country. That is at about 6% of the population. If we did it here it would be about 18 million Americans killed. Yet we think of the Chinese as our trading partner,and our companies rush to China to build their infrastructure. I know engineers working in China building their mines with our technology.
How are the ChiComs any different than the Nazis and RussianComs?
TLP| 6.15.12 @ 4:13PM
FOREWARD!
c. j. acworth| 6.15.12 @ 8:56AM
I wonder what kind of social upheaveal China is in for when it finds it has legions of men on it's hands who can't find wives. Or will they all be drafted into the army and given "employment" furthering China's interests at the expence of say, Taiwan, or Vietnam. This one-child policy is a social experiment that could end up being more devastating for China and its neighbors than communism itself.
Appleby| 6.15.12 @ 9:40AM
I thought of that right away. What do you get when you have masses of unmarried men who can't get dates (because believe me, the girls they do allow to live will be PICKY), and everybody knows you have to have sex every day or you die?
You get soccer hooligans, Occupiers, and the world's angriest Army.
PolishKnight| 6.15.12 @ 4:14PM
This is assuming, Appleby, that China has the same culture as ours based upon western chivalry and American puritanical pruditry. If the men need sex, they can go to brothels. That solved a lot of problems during the USA's frontier era. Regarding the women getting picky, this is assuming that they have the same unilateral rights to welfare, women friendly divorce courts, and child-support they do in the USA.
Our matriarchal society has resulted in cities that even most leftists prefer to limosine out of after nightfall. Men are thrown into jail for failure to pay "child" support (poverty not an excuse) Fundamentally, what's the difference morally between us and China?
c. j. acworth| 6.15.12 @ 6:56PM
Actually, to respond to both Appleby and Polish Knight, I wasn't thinking of wives as mere sextoys. Men (generally) want to marry because they see it as a major part of a fulfilled life to partner with a suitable woman and bring children into the world. (Don't ask me, I'm a bachelor.) I suspect that in China it's even more imperative given the history of ancestor worship there. The only immortality comes through your children.
Gueppebarre| 6.16.12 @ 10:15AM
I think brothels is what the Chinese may have in mind for American women (since there aren't many Chinese ones) once they've extended enough credit to us and we can't pay. Which is real soon!
Occam's Tool| 6.15.12 @ 8:53PM
Appleby: You have no idea how women live in the PRC. They are NOT picky, they are brutally oppressed. Sorry, ma'am. Them's the facts.
Robert| 6.18.12 @ 8:30AM
Honestly, in my many trips to China, I cannot say I have seen evidence of brutality in their women. They seem as delightful, charming and unaffected as women anywhere, perhaps moreso. My conclusion: women don't miss what they don't know. A person brought up in bondage know no other options, thus feels 'free.'
I am not an apologist for China...just speaking the facts as I have observed. I am not blind to the atrocities visited upon Chinese women in this strange society -- both matriarchal at home and patriarchal in government.
Louis Jenkins| 6.15.12 @ 9:02AM
That's what you get when the government controls everything-everything! Only Obama can claim that the Republicans and conservatives have declared war on the women and get away with it. It's a reverse ploy. Claim that the women are allowed choice, when in reality we're just one step away from being like China.
The old switcher-roo. Obama is getting really good at it, but then the progressives have always played that game. Mr. Constantine calls it human bondage, I can only call it slavery. Wonder where all the saints will come from in the end when man stands before the Maker? Each and every unborne fetus may lay claim to the title, and it is deserved.
Mike G| 6.15.12 @ 9:13AM
If Obamacare is not overturned, you can expect our own government to start limiting pregnancies on the basis that we cannot afford to provide the lifelong healthcare. I predict within ten years. Don't pretend it can't happen.
RCV| 6.15.12 @ 12:40PM
BS
Truth to Power| 6.15.12 @ 2:43PM
Right. We can believe you. You have been on a slippery slope your entire life. Who would have ever guessed that folks like you would advocate pulling a baby out backwards so you could puncture its skull in the womb all to make it legal? That procedure is all about the health or life of the Mother. You are a total slime ball.
TLP| 6.15.12 @ 4:15PM
They will use the evidence in their Genome, to determine their propensity to be OBESE, and that alone, will sentence them to the Garbage Can.
TLP| 6.15.12 @ 4:18PM
His Medical Czar LOVES the Chinese One Child Policy.
HIS Medical Czar.
Occam's Tool| 6.15.12 @ 8:54PM
Actually, what will happen is delayed treatment of cancers, and delayed access to medical technology in the aged. That is what went on in New Zealand when I was there, based on NICE, which is anything but.
Gueppebarre| 6.16.12 @ 10:18AM
I believe that this is the primary purpose for the law being passed.
David| 6.15.12 @ 2:10PM
I read an article a couple of years back that explored the implications of China's one-child policy.
Males are clearly the preferred children, and as appleby stated, China is going to have one f_cking angry army of kamakazi-type (suicidal) men because they can't get sex.
Of course China could always make it so that one woman would have to marry and service several men, but somehow I don't think that fits in with what Chinese culture would accept.
Gueppebarre| 6.16.12 @ 10:22AM
I mentioned above that perhaps the plan for the debtor-nation America's women to provide these "services." Just sayin' - "...the borrower is servant to the lender..."
cicero| 6.15.12 @ 4:35PM
In all likelihood, the number of Chinese that met an untimely death during the time of Mao was closer to 70 million. I do not believe that number included those aborted. There will be serious consequences to the one child policy. They are already being felt in the dearth of young women available for marriage. The social upheaval and dislocation will not be confined to China.
The problem with beaurocratic meddling in social engineering is that they never know when to stop. And when the disaster becomes obvious, they don't know how to admit that they were wrong, and directions must be changed. They just keep plowing forward until the whole thing collapses. That is why our founders gave us the ability to throw a revolution every 2 to 4 years.
Occam's Tool| 6.15.12 @ 8:50PM
Chinese families prefer boys. This has resulted in too few females for boys. This shortage will NOT result in pickiness among women: rather, it will result in rape, forced prostitution, and limited rights of mobility for women. One can adopt special needs boys in China, but otherwise one adopts baby grls who have been raised in horribly deprived and disgusting conditions. I chose Guatemala for my babies to be adopted from because of their awesome foster parent program. I actually have met and my wife keeps up with the foster families that took care of our babies, and the lawyer who facilitated this is a family friend and we make donations to the orphanages she runs. Further, the adoption agency we used also did Jillian Michael's adoption. Very, very lucky.
The Chinese kids we have met through adoption meetings seem to have caught up well; still, the Chinese are a-holes in how they treat their kids and their women. This is why they will grow old before they grow rich, as Mark Steyn eloquently (and correctly) puts it.
Obama, on the other hand, is going to lose, RCV, and you will owe me a gift certificate. Don't think I've forgotten! :-)
RCV| 6.15.12 @ 10:19PM
Nor have I, Occam, so put a little aside for that steak.
Occam's Tool| 6.15.12 @ 8:51PM
I guess it's Jillian Michaels' adoption---you know, the goddess from "The Biggest Loser"?
Joseph| 6.16.12 @ 9:45AM
Nobody in a crowded world has a right to reproduce at will. Or in a crowded country.
Gueppebarre| 6.16.12 @ 10:23AM
Says who?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 6.17.12 @ 9:52AM
Joseph, action starts locally. Please feel free to reduce the crowd by removing yourself "at will".