{"id":127231,"date":"2016-09-28T12:51:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T16:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=127231"},"modified":"2016-10-01T09:45:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T13:45:18","slug":"womens-rights-group-calls-for-investigation-of-international-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/womens-rights-group-calls-for-investigation-of-international-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s rights group calls for investigation of International Planned Parenthood Federation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>This week marks the 36th anniversary of China&#8217;s One Child Policy, which has resulted in countless\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/\">forced abortions<\/a>. Recently, China relaxed the policy\u00a0to a Two Child Policy, but pressure to abort has continued. Earlier this year, a Guangdong couple\u00a0claimed they were\u00a0<a href=\"\/news\/chinese-family-told-to-abort-at-8-months-or-theyll-be-fired\/\">threatened<\/a>\u00a0with losing their government jobs if they refused to abort. The woman was eight months pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>On this anniversary week, Women&#8217;s Rights Without Frontiers president Reggie Littlejohn is calling for a full investigation of International Planned Parenthood Federation regarding its\u00a0connections to forced abortion in China. She explained in an email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The One Child Policy has been responsible for hundreds of millions of forced abortions and sterilizations and untold human suffering.\u00a0 While posturing as a champion of choice, International Planned Parenthood has been working hand in hand with the population control program in China, almost since its inception.\u00a0 Forced abortion is not a choice.\u00a0 Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers calls for a full-scale, international investigation of International Planned Parenthood to determine the exact nature of its operations in China.\u00a0 Transparency is demanded by the fact that IPPF receives taxpayer dollars from the United States and other nations as well.\u00a0 I believe it is impossible to work so closely with the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s forced abortion machine without being complicit in its atrocities.\u00a0 This is especially the case when this year we learned that the number of abortions in China is not 13 million, but a staggering 23 million a year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"ArticleAd1\">\n<p><!-- \/1011927\/LAN_300_by_250_top_article --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1473179053567-0\" class=\"ArticleAd1a\"><script>\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1473179053567-0'); });\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has long been affiliated with\u00a0the China Family Planning Association (CFPA),\u00a0partnering since 1983.\u00a0IPPF currently\u00a0lists CFPA as a &#8220;member organization&#8221; on its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ippf.org\/about-us\/member-associations\/china\">website<\/a>. Also on its website,\u00a0IPPF claims to stand for individuals&#8217;\u00a0freedom to make choices. However, in 2009, then-director-general of IPPF Gill Greer <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2009-09\/28\/content_12122999.htm\">praised<\/a> China&#8217;s coercive &#8220;population control policy&#8221; as &#8220;very conducive to China&#8217;s development in various aspects such as economy, education and health care services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Due to International Planned Parenthood&#8217;s ties to China&#8217;s family planning policy, Littlejohn believes an investigation is not only justified, but necessary. She concludes, \u201cOne out of every five women in the world lives in China.\u00a0 The women of the world will not be free until the women of China are free.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks the 36th anniversary of China&#8217;s One Child Policy, which has resulted in countless\u00a0forced abortions. Recently, China relaxed the policy\u00a0to a Two Child Policy, but pressure to abort has continued. Earlier this year, a Guangdong couple\u00a0claimed they were\u00a0threatened\u00a0with losing their government jobs if they refused to abort. The woman was eight months pregnant. 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