Some attention was given to China’s one-child policy with Vice President Joe Biden off-handedly expressed sympathy for it, but the moral horror the policy evokes in most has yet to lead to real opposition. Writing in the American Spectator , Jing Zhang of Women’s Right in China urges us to organize against it:
Women in China have no reproductive rights. No permit, no pregnancy. There is no right for women to give birth. Unlike Vice President Biden, we all need to second guess China’s one-child policy, especially since China has no plans to end this policy for at least another generation. Aside from the personal human suffering each aborted woman must endure, Americans need to know about the suffering that exists for the spouses and parents and most families in China who can no longer have brothers and sisters and will never be aunts and uncles.
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