WUNRN
Shen Hongxia
On March 19, a doctor at
The Family Planning Bureau and the
Village Committee attempted to cover up their criminal responsibility by making
an agreement to compensate the family by installments, and to build them a
house. Family members felt forced to sign the agreement, as they saw no other
way to seek relief.
Reggie Littlejohn, President of
Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, stated, “Women’s Rights Without Frontiers
strongly condemns forced sterilization and all coercive family planning in
This is the second death related
to forced sterilization in March alone. In the other case, a woman who had been
forcibly sterilized twice was found hanging in her local Family Planning
Office, under suspicious circumstances. [Warning, Graphic photo] http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/blog/?p=986
Littlejohn stated, “The Chinese Communist Party recently admitted to performing 196 million sterilizations.
These sterilizations too often leave women butchered and maimed, and can at
times be deadly. I first learned of the brutality of
Sign a petition against coercive family planning here:
http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=sign_our_petition
Watch a powerful, 4-minute video
about forced abortion in
Stop Forced
Abortion –
http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/?nav=stop-forced-abortion
WRIC seeks to connect the family
of Shen Hongxia with lawyers. Read their original report here. http://www.wrchina.org/archives/416