Reproductive Policy in China

From Jay Manifold:

Millions of Chinese men and women have been forcibly aborted or sterilized under China's "population control policy." Hundreds of victims have fled to America to spare their child's life or who fear their own safety.

Since the Clinton Administration agrees with China's one-child policy, refusing to consider it persecution, these immigrants have been held in prisons throughout America for almost 2 years. Their families in China have been harshly punished, with fines of up to several years' wages, or their homes bulldozed.

First-hand accounts of the one-child policy reveal the inhumane treatement, including:

• Incarcerating pregnant women in barracks until they acquiesce to abortions and/or sterilizations.
• Handcuffing mothers in their last trimester, herding them into cages and delivering them by the truckload to the operating tables of abortion clinics.
• Carrying out sterilization or abortion without the consent or knowledge of the women.
• Crushing the skulls of infants with forceps during delivery or injecting iodine, alcohol, or formaldehyde into their soft spots as they are crowning so that they are born dead.
• Cutting off food, electricity, water and wages for couples who refuse to comply.
• Confiscating the furniture, livestock, and even homes of families who refuse to comply.
• Demolishing the homes of those who refuse to comply.
• Physical torture of those who refuse to comply.

On February 14, 1995, the Chinese government announced a new campaign of even more rigorous enforcement of the one-child policy.

Federal authorities from the Department of Justice and the INS have used deceitful, unethical, and perhaps illegal actions to keep the immigrants in jail and to quietly deport them. The Clinton administration not only supports China's one-child policy, they subsidize it with tax dollars through foreign aid for "family planning."

On February 27, 1995, the Fifth Circuit Appellate Court denied the immigrants' plea for asylum. They now face deportation back to China, and certain torture.

Source: April 24, 1995, posting to LiberNet by Jay Manifold.