34th Anniversary of China's One-Child Policy Sparks Abortion Discussions
China has been required citizens to abide by its one-child policy for 34 years; the anniversary of the policyā€™s installation has now sparked conversations about forced abortions in the nation.
Reggie Littlejohn, Womenā€™s Rights Without Frontiers has written a letter that condemns the one-child policy and urges President Xi Jinping to abolish it immediately.
"Your government has boasted that it has 'prevented' more than 400 million births through this policy. These births have been prevented through forced abortions, involuntary sterilizations, confiscatory 'terror fines,' gendercide and infanticide ā€” all in violation of international human rights law,ā€¯ Littlejohn wrote....