Category: China

In 2014, before giving birth, Zeynebhan Memtimin was taken by authorities to a hospital in Hotan prefecture. When she learned she was going to be forced into an abortion, she somehow managed to escape and was able to give birth to her baby. Read the whole story.

By Cassy Fiano-Chesser  Radio Free Asia has reported that a Uyghur woman who fled a Xinjiang hospital in 2014 to escape a forced abortion has died in prison. She was allegedly imprisoned for that very action. In 2014, before giving birth, Zeynebhan Memtimin was taken by authorities to a hospital in Hotan prefecture. When she …

By Reggie Littlejohn March 8 marks International Women’s Day, in which the Chinese Communist Party celebrates its supposed empowerment of women, who Mao once famously said “hold up half the sky.” The reality for many women in China, however, is far different. The disturbing video of a woman, chained by the neck, wearing thin clothing …

By Sarah Terzo According to a story in the Vancouver Sun, a Chinese woman underwent a forced abortion where the baby was born alive. Seeking asylum in Canada, she told her story to the board determining whether she would be allowed to stay. According to the Vancouver Sun: She told the board she underwent a forced …

By John Stonestreet & Kasey Leander After more than 35 years of various versions of its “the one-child policy,” which experts estimate cost the country between 200 and 400 million lives, China is attempting an about-face.  Back in 2015, the government “officially” ended the one-child policy by allowing couples to have up to two children …

By Wesley J. Smith   CNN has published an important story in which a former Chinese policeman describes in vivid, first-person terms, how he systematically tortured Uyghurs to garner false confessions. He was told when assigned to the crackdown that he was arresting terrorists. But he soon learned they were just ordinary people living routine lives disapproved …

The Wall Street Journal published an article today that, according to anonymous sources “familiar with the matter,” the Chinese Communist Party is considering the possibility of ending all birth restrictions in 2025. Reggie Littlejohn, Founder and President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, has been battling forced abortion in China for more than a decade.  She issued the following STATEMENT: …

By Scott Whitlock China is facing a baby shortage after decades of a one child policy that resulted in millions of forced abortions and infanticide against girls. Yet CBS This Morning on Tuesday somehow never mentioned the brutal abortion practice that, according to NPR, resulted in “about 100 million missing women across Asia.” Instead reporter Ramy Inocencio simply insisted …