The American Spectator

Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey, a Republican who’s been a leader on pro-life and other human rights issues, was on the Laura Ingraham show today to discuss Vice President Joe Biden’s comments, in China, about that country’s one-child policy. (Biden said that he “fully understands” and isn’t “second-guessing” the rule.) Here’s a transcription of some of what Smith said on the show: 

This is just exposing what this administration has been doing from day one. Just like the eight years of the Clinton administration, and that is to enable dictatorship, to enable forced abortion and forced sterilization. Let’s not forget that at the Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal, forced abortion was properly construed to be a crime against humanity. It is no less a crime against humanity today and there is our Vice President saying that he fully understands the one child per couple policy that has made brothers and sisters illegal in China.

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Hillary Clinton, en route to Beijing, after being selected as secretary of state, said, I’m not going to allow human rights to interfere — her words — with selling or peddling our debt, as well as global warming. Obama — when he had Hu Jintao in town, who ought to be held for genocide and crimes against humanity at the world court, he said nothing, had a state dinner for this man who ought to be behind bars, be held to account for these atrocities, including those focused on women. 

It is hideous. Women are hunted down, if they evade these family planning cadres into the ninth month, they are forcibly brought into a clinic and [their children] are aborted. I had a…Chinese student here in the United States, who finally got asylum, and she told her story, how they literally held her father, they held other people until she surrendered for this so-called voluntary abortion, and then she literally, roughly, had her baby removed. And, as she said, they actually put one of the body parts on her to mock her. I mean, that’s how cruel this policy is. And there’s Joe Biden, saying that he fully understands this one-child per couple policy. That is an outrageous statement. He prides himself on his combating violence against women. This is the worst, most pervasive act of violence against women anywhere in the world. It is systematic, and it is state-sponsored. And the United States of America under Obama, Hillary Clinton, and now the vice president, in this outrageous statement, is showing the world that we do not care about Chinese women and about Chinese babies.