Thirty-five years ago this month when I was in China, the reign of terror known as the one-child policy had already begun. It continues today. By Steven W. Mosher The woman on the operating table was nearly eight months pregnant. The doctor picked up a scalpel...
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China should stop forced abortion and gendercide for Children’s Day June 1
By Womens Rights without Frontiers On June 1, all provinces in China will celebrate “Children’s Day” with lavish children’s art exhibitions and performances. Meanwhile, no mention will be made of the fact that China has “prevented” more than 400 million...
“Better to be a Criminal in China than a Pregnant Mother”
Those who violate the one-child policy are more harshly punished than those who violate other laws By Steven W. Mosher, President, Population Research Institute The Chinese Ministry of State Security must have been asleep on the job. The email that appeared in...
We know China has a one-child policy
By Sheila Liaugminas Who believes media accounts that the Chinese government has eased it? For the past two years in particular, in American politics, we’ve heard a lot of allegations about certain parties carrying out a ‘war on women’ and it’s becoming a...
Newly Released Book Recounts Reproductive Cruelties in China
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Population Research Institute is pleased to announce the release of the second edition of Steven Mosher’s best-selling book, A Mother’s Ordeal: One Woman’s Fight Against China’s One-Child Policy, complete with a new preface by the author. A...
Even if China’s One-Child Policy were modified, it would not end forced abortion
By Reggie Littlejohn Editor’s note. While my family and I are on vacation, we are running some of our favorite NRL News Today stories from the last four months, entries from our “Roe at 40" series, and an occasional update.NRL News Today recently asked Reggie...
NPR asks if one-child policy, gendercide are good for Chinese women
By Ben Johnson June 4, 2013--Seeing hundreds of millions of forced abortions, pandemic cultural misogyny, and high female suicide rates, NPR wonders if the one-child policy and sex-selective abortion aren't a huge step forward for feminism. While writing this story...
Chinese Government admits 336 million abortions under “One-Child” policy
By Dave Andrusko This headline and sub-headline from Friday’s Daily Telegraph (a British newspaper) is as accurate as it is infuriating: “336 million abortions under China's one-child policy: More than half a billion birth control procedures, including at least 336...
“We lost the most,” said Feng, “We lost a baby”
By Dave Andrusko This was a myth that circulated briefly that China had eased up on its One-Child policy enforced by coerced abortion. It has not; in fact, just last month, Wang Xia, Chairman, the National Population and Family Planning Commission, said, “We must...
China Has Not “Abandoned” One-Child Policy – Think Tank Says
By Reggie Littlejohn, President, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers (WRWF) The China Development Research Foundation (CDRF) -- a think tank affiliated with the Chinese government -- has recommended that China gradually phase in a two-child policy over the next three...