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.
