China's Policies of Coercive Abortion

A Newsday article reported the Bush administration's stance on funding for the U.N. Population Fund

President Bush's administration has barred all U.S. funding for the U.N. Population Fund for the last three years, charging that its support for China's population planning programs allows Beijing to implement policies of coercive abortion.

Kelly Ryan, deputy assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, told UNFPA's executive board Wednesday that China's population and family planning law adopted in 2001 and its one-child policies "demonstrate that the birth limitation program clearly has coercive elements in law and in practice."

"If UNFPA would stop giving the `seal of approval,' I think we could move the ball along quite a bit more," Ryan said in an interview.

The Bush administration wants China's provinces to abolish regulations that, among other things, punish unplanned births, require couples to use contraception and require pregnancies be terminated if prenatal exams show the fetus to be severely deformed, Ryan said.

Three U.S. government reports have been written that substantiates these claims and more extreme abuses and crimes against women by the Peoples Republic of China. Annie Banno has the details.

HT: AfterAbortion