Bush withholds funds to China $34 million for 'family planning' cancelled over forced abortions

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: July 17, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration yesterday announced it will withhold a $34 million payment from the United Nations Population Fund to China over the issue of forced abortions.

The Communist government of China maintains, at least in some areas of the country, a one-child policy sometimes enforced through a policy of forced abortions. It is believed China performs some 10 million involuntary abortions a year.

State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the U.S. is the world's largest donor to health programs for women and children, to the tune of $1.8 billion this year, of which over $400 million is for reproductive health and family planning. As WND has reported, the abortions disproportionately affect female babies.

Facing a critical shortage of women that could leave millions of men without wives, China is trying to convince its populace of the value of girls, who have been systematically killed during birth or after as a result of the one-child limit on most families.

Beijing has developed a five-year plan to correct the alarming disparity in the numbers of males and females in the country.

First exposed by WND in 1997, what has come to be known as "gendercide" in China has resulted in the deaths of at least 50 million girls.

The government is promoting what it calls "Girl Care Project" – teaching rural families to value daughters as much as sons – and strengthening the social welfare system, especially in rural areas, said Zhao Baige, a vice-minister of the State Population and Family Planning Commission.

She said Beijing was committed to bringing the sex ratio, which now sees 117 boys born for every 100 girls, back in line with international standards. The world average is 107 boys to 100 girls.

Only seven mainland provinces come close to matching the world's average, with fewer than 110 boys against 100 girls. Some have 130 boys for every 100 girls.

Experts have warned that if the problem is not corrected soon, China will face dire social problems, with millions of men unable to find wives. The imbalance will also aggravate the problem of an aging population in the future.

Five years ago, each retiree in China was supported by 10 workers. By 2020 this ratio will have fallen to one to six, and by 2050 to one to three.

China's population grew at an estimated average rate of 1 percent a year between 1991 and 2002. It was then officially estimated at 1.28 billion, though this may be a significant underestimate. Under-reporting of births has become common since the government's strict one-child family policy was introduced in 1980.

The birth rate fell from 37 per 1,000 people in 1952 to 12.9 per 1,000 in 2002. The death rate fell from 17 per 1,000 in the early years of the People's Republic of China to 6.4 per 1,000 in 2002.

This shortage of workers to support an aging population including more and more retirees will cause an economic crisis in China, say analysts.

In addition, to an aging population, China increasingly is developing a population dominated by males. This, too, is a direct offshoot of the one-child policy, which has resulted in the "disappearance" of millions of girls – most of whom are assumed to have been killed at birth or shortly afterward, while others were the victims of sex-selection abortion procedures. Many other young girls are put up for foreign adoption. Two-thirds of Chinese children put up for adoption are female.

As first reported in WND in September 1997, the World Health Organization released a report at WHO's Regional Committee for the Western Pacific that said more than 50 million women were estimated to be "missing" in China because of the institutionalized killing and neglect of girls due to Beijing's population control program that limits parents to one child.

Many of the girls were killed while still in the womb – the victims of ultrasound technology that revealed the baby's sex. Others, WHO said, were starved to death after birth, the victims of violence or were not treated when they became ill.

The report's statistics showed that in 1994, 117 boys were born for every 100 girls in China. That is the same ratio today in China – 10 years later. Though baby girls tend to have a higher survival rate than boys, that natural process has been dramatically reversed in China by infanticide, gross neglect, maltreatment and malnutrition of females in a culture that regards boys as more desirable – especially when couples get only one chance at parenthood.

The trend transcends the infancy stage, too, the report shows. Girls are at higher risk than boys of dying before the age of 5 in China – despite their natural biological advantages.

"In many cases, mothers are more likely to bring their male children to health centers – particularly to private physicians – and they may be treated at an earlier stage of disease than girls," the paper reported.

WHO documented what can only be described as the biggest single holocaust in human history – and doing it in a surprisingly clinical and low-key fashion. It was characterized in that WorldNetDaily report, for the first time, as "gendercide," a phrase that has been picked up by other organizations and activists around the globe

Some Chinese couples who want a boy simply choose to abandon female infants to die.

-- - (David@excite.com), August 07, 2004

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-- - (David@excite.com), August 07, 2004.

Yes, abortion is a "female rights" issue!

-- Steve (55555@aol.com), August 09, 2004.

I don't see how abortion could be a "female" issue given that about half the children slaughtered in the abortuaries of this country are male, and given that every child killed has two parents, a mother and a father.

-- Paul M. (PaulCyp@cox.net), August 09, 2004.

Hold up, Paul, I didn’t say it was a “female-ONLY” issue. I was just commenting how in China (and I believe in many parts of Asia, Africa and Oceania) promotion of abortion leads to selective murder of girls; and the irony of pro-abortionists promoting abortion under the banner of “female rights”. It actually leads to a restriction of female rights, in this and many other ways. At one time if a fellow got a girl pregnant, he felt obliged to marry her – a situation the so-called feminists condemned. Now he thinks he is being gentlemanly and gallant if he offers to pay for the abortion! Men now demand virtually unrestricted sexual intercourse, and when the inevitable failure of contraception occurs, women are given the “right” (and consequently the responsibility and guilt) of killing any resulting baby. And some call that “women’s liberation”!

-- Steve (55555@aol.com), August 09, 2004.

It is unfortunate that the baby has no rights at all - either in its conception or its death.

Steve, is there a rule that says no copying and pasting? If so, I will refrain from doing so. I do not come on here very often so I am not familiar with the rules. However, if I see something I feel is worth passing on, I copy and paste it. Please let me know about the C&P..

When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard: "Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe tothose who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We confess that we have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and call it Pluralism. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of _expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent to direct us to the center of Your will and to openly ask these things in the name ofYour Son, the living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen!"

The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest.. In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively. The church is now receiving international requests for copies of this prayer from India, Africa and Korea.

Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, "The Rest of the Story," and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired.

With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called "one nation under God."

Blessings ML

-- MaryLu (mlc327@juno.com), August 09, 2004.

MaryLu, as far as I know there is no rule against cutting and pasting (as long as the article isn’t too long). I myself have C&P’d from reputable sources like the Vatican website. What I objected to was your thoughtless cut & paste (in “Catholics against and for Kerry”) of an extremely defamatory article, which I assume you obtained by email chain letter, and which has been comprehensively debunked on the major email hoax detector sites. The article you have reproduced above appears to be more or less accurate though some points are exaggerated.

-- Steve (55555@aol.com), August 09, 2004.