{"id":81605,"date":"2015-12-03T14:22:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T19:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=81605"},"modified":"2015-12-03T14:22:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T19:22:59","slug":"china-desperate-mom-pays-another-pregnant-woman-to-abort-under-her-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/china-desperate-mom-pays-another-pregnant-woman-to-abort-under-her-name\/","title":{"rendered":"China: Desperate mom pays another pregnant woman to abort under her name"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A two-month-old Chinese baby girl is alive and safe today in her grateful mother&#8217;s arms. But for this mother to save her child, another was not so lucky.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Their story, typical and ongoing under the new Two Child Policy, is one of several that Women&#8217;s Rights Without Frontiers that I\u00a0will share today at a Congressional-Executive Commission on China Hearing. My testimony, \u201cChina\u2019s Two-Child Policy \u2013 New Number, Same Violence Against Women,\u201d is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cecc.gov\/events\/hearings\/china\u2019s-new-\u201ctwo-child-policy\u201d-the-continuation-of-massive-crimes-against-women-and\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers\u2019<\/a>\u00a0on-the-ground network in China reported how little \u201cAi Bao\u201d was still in the womb when her mother found herself targeted by Family Planning Officials for breaking the law: Ai already had a three-year-old sister, and her mother did not have a \u201cbirth permit.\u201d Although China now technically allows two children, pregnancies that began before the policy change takes effect remain illegal in many provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with a forced abortion, Ai Bao\u2019s mother paid an unwed pregnant woman \u00a5 2000 ($312) to use the identity of Ai Bao\u2019s mother when the unwed mother underwent an abortion \u2013 inevitable for her, since unwed motherhood remains illegal in Communist China.\u00a0 This procured \u201cabortion certificate\u201d was turned in to the Family Planning Office, and Ai Bao\u2019s mother went into hiding to complete the pregnancy.\u00a0 Since Ai Bao is an \u201cillegal child,\u201d she has no household registration or\u00a0<i>hukou<\/i>.\u00a0 Therefore, she has no birth certificate, no access to healthcare or education.\u00a0 She can never officially work, marry or travel.<\/p>\n<p>Such <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=2130\">incidents shed light<\/a> on the simple fact that the human rights atrocities committed in the name of the One Child Policy continue unabated under the Two Child Policy.\u00a0\u00a0As blind activist Chen Guangcheng succinctly tweeted, &#8220;This is nothing to be happy about. First the\u00a0#CCP\u00a0would kill any baby after one. Now they will kill any baby after two.\u00a0#ChinaOneChildPolicy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party has not suddenly developed a conscience or grown a heart.\u00a0Coercion and control remain the core of the policy.<\/p>\n<p>Our fieldworkers in China have given a glimpse into the real aftermath of the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s \u201cabandonment\u201d of the One Child Policy. Forced abortions, sterilizations, and \u201cterror fines\u201d are still the order of the day, they report, as well as the ongoing problem of China&#8217;s 37 million \u201cextra\u201d men from decades of sex-selective abortions of girls: a powerful impetus for sex trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Another hidden tragedy, according to fieldworkers, is the untold suffering of Chinese women due to forced sterilizations, a brutal procedure that ruins their general health. This especially harms poor women, who literally become too weak to pump water from deep wells after the sterilizations \u2013 a permanent trauma that devastates families dependent on a mother&#8217;s physical strength.<\/p>\n<p>In a world laden with compassion fatigue, people are relieved to cross China\u2019s One\u00a0Child policy off of their list of things to worry about.\u00a0But we must not do that.\u00a0 Women are still being forcibly aborted and sterilized, girls are still being selectively aborted, and millions of children are still being denied healthcare and education in China.<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers demands the unequivocal end to all coercive population control in China now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-month-old Chinese baby girl is alive and safe today in her grateful mother&#8217;s arms. 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