Report Cites Abuses From China’s One-Child Rule

[harvey007]

Source: NY Times

BEIJING — Thirty years after it introduced some of the world’s most sweeping population-control measures, the Chinese government continues to use a variety of coercive family planning tactics, from financial penalties for households that violate the restrictions to the forced sterilization of women who have already had one child, according to a report issued by a human rights group.

The report, published Tuesday by Chinese Human Rights Defenders, documents breadwinners who lose their jobs after the birth of a second child, campaigns that reward citizens for reporting on the reproductive secrets of their neighbors and expectant mothers dragged into operating rooms for late-term abortions.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/world/asia/22population.html?_r=1&hp

[applegrove]

1. The right wing should stop shopping for stuff made in china if they really

truly are against abortions. But they line up at walmart like sheep instead.

[marshall]

2. Ditto for those of us who believe in a woman's right to choose

It's an abuse that should unite all of us in reviling it.

[applegrove]

3. Oh for sure.

[UpInArms]

4. haven't spent a dime in squal-mart in more than 10 years

but that doesn't mean i'm not stuck with many products that are from China...

sigh....