U.S. Congress Votes To Continue Funding Forced Abortions
(Gregory Bull/AP)
Normally I wouldn’t put “U.S.” before Congress as it’s obvious which government is being discussed, but I find this news so shocking that I am stunned that it is American politicians who have essentially cast their votes IN FAVOR of forced abortions. It’s one thing for a politician to say he’s pro-choice… but to knowingly provide money to organizations (i.e., China) that force women to kill their unborn babies is just low. Read after the excerpt to see how China has managed to keep 300 million people from being born over the past few decades in their bid for population control.
Excerpt:
Congress has rejected attempts to retain a pro-life policy that bars federal funding for organizations that support coercive abortion programs overseas, reports Baptist Press.
The Senate defeated an amendment March 5 that would have restored the policy, known as the Kemp-Kasten Amendment, to the $410 billion omnibus spending bill under consideration. The House of Representatives also rejected an effort to amend the legislation before approving the appropriations measure.
Senators voted 55-39 against an amendment by Sen. Roger Wicker, R.-Miss., that would have inserted Kemp-Kasten into the bill and removed $50 million designated for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Three Democrats — Sens. Evan Bayh of Indiana, Robert Casey of Pennsylvania and Ben Nelson of Nebraska — voted with 36 Republicans in support of the amendment.
During its last seven years, the Bush administration refused to forward congressionally approved funds to UNFPA based on the agency’s support of China’s coercive population-control policy. During that period, the administration withheld nearly $235 million from the UNFPA as a result of President Bush’s finding that the agency aided in a program of forced abortion and sterilization. The action was based on Kemp-Kasten, which was first approved in 1985.
I wonder if Mrs. Obama and Secretary Clinton are too busy this month, marking National Women’s Day, to bother with the plight of women in China whose babies are killed by the state, and many times forcibly sterilized.
Here is a letter an expert on China’s forced abortions wrote to President Obama on Feb. 18, 2009, in hopes of stirring Mr. Obama’s conscience.
An excerpt from a Feb. 2009 article on women in China speaking out against this atrocious, inhumane act:
ABUSES of women’s reproductive rights, some of which break China’s own laws, are provoking outrage as Chinese public opinion wakes up to the persistence of forced abortion, compulsory sterilisation and even infanticide.
China has run birth control campaigns since the 1970s. In 1979 it passed laws restricting city dwellers to one child and rural people to two if the first was a girl or disabled.
Officials say the policy has prevented 300m births and helped reduce poverty, raising life expectancy to 73. But the Chinese population is still growing by 8m-10m a year, or about a million every five weeks, and will do so for several more years.
Open discussion of abuses of the policy has raised hopes among women activists that Hillary Clinton will speak up for them when she makes her first visit to China as US secretary of state this week. [Those hopes were crushed, by the way - LaVrai]
Clinton annoyed the Chinese regime with a speech at a 1995 women’s conference in Beijing in which she said: “It is a violation of human rights when women are denied the right to plan their own families, and that includes being forced to have an abortion or sterilized against their will.”
Now Clinton is predicted to tackle Beijing on a broader range of issues than the economics-focused approach taken by the Bush administration. She has signaled that she will take a firmer stand on human rights.
Even as Chinese media and internet commentators break taboos to report birth control abuses, some officials are stepping up humiliating interventions in the lives of women.
Those with one child are likely to face regular pregnancy tests and pressure to be sterilized through a range of financial penalties or the threat of being sacked from their jobs.
Physical coercion to terminate a pregnancy or undergo sterilisation was banned by law in 2002 but numerous reports in the Chinese media claim that it still goes on.
Chinese women are daring to speak out themselves. Zhang Linla, who has a four-year-old daughter, told a website in Shenzhen, on the border with Hong Kong, that she was subjected to a late forced abortion because she became pregnant again before the period officially allowed between births.
“Six days before the due date, 10 strong strangers came to my house, forced me into a truck then took me to a family planning clinic, where the doctor gave me an injection,” she said.
“The child began struggling in my womb and one of these scum even kicked me in the abdomen. Then the baby came out and they threw it into a rubbish bin. I could even see it was still moving.”
Here is also a 2007 NPR article about another Chinese family’s plight at the hand of “family planning” officials (more like family killing officials).
We have a lot to answer GOD for.
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