Coercive Population Control in China: New Evidence of Forced Abortion and Forced Sterilization : Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session, October 17, 2001U.S. Government Printing Office, 2001 - 40 pagini |
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Pagina 17 - The Chinese program remains highly coercive, not because of local deviations from central policies but as a direct, inevitable, and intentional consequence of those policies.
Pagina 19 - ... whose first child was a boy, two children for couples whose first child was a girl — impossible to manage. Others, including the officials who run Sihui county in Guangdong province, where Li Aihai lives, are doing quite well at giving everyone two chances at a son, but no chance for two sons. The program continues to be carried out, against the popular will, by means of a variety of coercive measures. In presenting the program to foreigners, who can be squeamish about such things, officials...
Pagina 19 - ... 1989. New measures have been devised to bring pressure on the whole administrative chain of command down to the grassroots level. Severe penalties are prescribed in the newly revised local family planning regulations. Tactics earlier condemned as coercive are once again advocated. Mandatory IUD insertions, sterilizations, and abortions continue. The national family planning journal has issued thinly disguised injunctions to get the job done by whatever means necessary. Admonitions against "coercion...
Pagina 6 - The Implementation of the policy [In China] and the acceptance of the policy Is purely voluntary. There Is no such thing as, you know, a license to have a birth and so on.
Pagina 11 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. SMITH OF NEW JERSEY. Thank you very much.
Pagina 13 - We were told of efforts by many women to hide their pregnancies from government officials, in an attempt to escape forced abortion, so they could give birth to a child they desired. We were told of women having to hide their pregnancies and their children, to escape retribution from officials for not having an abortion. We were told of the many so-called "black" children in the region who are born out of accord with local birth regulations.
Pagina 17 - China will continue to enforce its effective family planning policy in the new century in order to create a favorable environment for further development
Pagina 7 - praised that (sic) over the past 20 years, China has seen notable achievements made in population control by implementing the family planning policy.
Pagina 18 - ... pregnancies as possible. The rules governing this high tide were simple: No woman was to be allowed to bear a second child within four years of her first, and third children were strictly forbidden. Furthermore, all women who had borne three or more children by November 1, 1979, were to be sterilized. Over the next few weeks I became an eyewitness to every aspect of this draconian campaign. I went with young women to family planning "study sessions" and saw them harangued and threatened by senior...
Pagina 6 - China has every reason to feel proud of and pleased with its remarkable achievements made in its family planning policy and control of its population growth over the past 10 years.