Washington, D.C. (23 April 2010) – China shocked the world anew this week with its latest forced-sterilization campaign in Puning City. Population controllers aimed to sterilize 10,000 men and women by April 27.
“The world is condemning this as a brutal human rights atrocity,” said Jim Sedlak, vice president of American Life League, “but how far is the United States from this reality? We already subsidize sterilizations, birth control and abortion for the poor in this country and around the world. President Obama’s new health care policy incentivizes population reduction. Are we not also, like China, eliminating ‘undesirables’ from our society?”
“China is merely farther along the same road the United States is traveling,” Sedlak continued, “one in which human rights and the very nature of man, woman and the family are first devalued, then disregarded and finally persecuted.”
Twenty-five million men in China are unable to find brides because so many girls are murdered shortly after birth. China’s brutal one-child policy is often enforced by violence, imprisonment and coercion techniques. In Puning, the parents of those couples who will not comply are reportedly being “detained” by authorities.
“While we distractedly look at China, we must also face our own human rights abuses. Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger’s eugenics philosophy is alive and well in poor neighborhoods and ghettos around the country,” Sedlak said.
“Population control, eugenics, abortion and sterilization to eliminate undesirables are a reality not just in China – but right here, right now in Washington, D.C. and all over the United States.”
American Life League was cofounded in 1979 by Judie Brown. It is the largest grassroots Catholic pro-life organization in the United States and is committed to the protection of all innocent human beings from the moment of creation to death. For more information or press inquiries, please contact Katie Walker at 540.659.4942.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Sky News: China: Authorities Plan to Sterilise 10,000 to Curb Births (23 April 2010)
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/China-Authorities-Plan-To-Sterilise-10000-People-To-Ensure-They-Meet-Family-Planning-Targets/Article/201004415613125?f=rss
inthenews.co.uk: Campaign Launched to ‘Sterilise 10,000 People In China’ (16 April 2010)
http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/world/china/campaign-launched-to-sterilise-10-000-people-in-china–$1371709.htm
FoxNews.com: China Tries to Sterilize 10,000 Parents Over One-Child Rule (16 April 2010)
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/04/16/china-tries-sterilize-parents-child-rule/