of rains for seventeen thousand women and they find those poor families up to seven point eight eight million r m b that's a massive amount of money for those who cannot afford to pay they went to their home took their any valuables their beds their lumen the window panels that tractors their t v their closing for those who doesn't have much left to smash their pots pans leave them with nothing many of his family run over to two mountains took their young to their children by the what they did is arrest the old and the husband some of the mothers came back agree to tie their tubes some women went through three times surgery and just exchanged to reste to release their songs and this is the same brutal suppression and to use brute method to suppress and restore order the same as it use and tam square massacre and now be read repeated in various different villages there's a most recent case took place in january of zero nine and shane she a similar very very similar case to a place that case we have not got a chance to document in detail but just last month there's something even more disturbing came out from china several cases of parents a young couple who was in the legal age to have a birth permit and they couldn't pay the three thousand arm b birth permit so the husband went to out when out forced out to make some money to pay and the wife was dragged to the hospital was dragged to the birth control place three days before her due date and they force aboard the big take the baby and wouldn't give the baby back to her until she paid a three thousand r and b when the husband came back rushing back to try to find the baby they told him the baby was dead later only learned the baby was not dead is being sold the most astonishing trend developments  brothers and the wife right over to the mountain to try to give birth and she was nine months pregnant hiding in the mountains and fall if you came by the hospital gave birth to twin babies and again they took the baby away before she was able to see and again the baby was gone before she didn't have before because she didn't have a birth permit and i do want to show you some pictures quickly that  so this is this is the documents and basically to record on the quarterly basis each family the time the checking the ring the contraceptive rings and and the records and the date and so for that as you remember for the woman who didn't when they laid the traveling something they had to mail the certificate back by the other places if they don't this will become a record of their fine and this is another picture of a very similar blowup picture of that picture of this young lady again with the force the board and her baby and her fetus was dumped in front of her bed and let her know she was and you can see the picture as a mother and we all know  the hope anticipation when you are carrying the baby and the devastation you can only imagine when the baby was forced to be bored out of her body and these are pictures of a young female infant was abandoned on the street because a preference for boys or the opportunity to have a boy and again these a similar slogans as it would have shown and the slogan said during the see would permit give birth with permits and these are the big slogans on the wall saying when you're required by policy get abortion but if you don't your house were destroyed and your buffaloes will be confiscated and another one saying w rather have blood flow like river than allow one extra baby to be born and here is now the once aborted kill it terminate you just can't not give birth to it and these are all the new things they're doing to package and beautified the so called one child birth policy and this is something that they will give you dave the family if the woman agreed to tie the two and give mug glory certificate to give to the family and this be kind of bad you and my child is a very going kid when the baby was fed and he she would go to sleep no need to rock her and say you don't need to buy clothes for this young child because there's another girl  you can just take some clothes but please keep it quiet so these are the prices that going up in china the one really important things to president obama is is a complete luzhin for him to think he can go to china truly build a treaty to partnership wh function it's not suitable that she get such a surgery done however the surgery was carried out and then she had a serious health issues after the surgery  thank you congressman thank you very much for your leadership on freedom of religion issues as well as on the forced abortions issue that is being addressed today of course those two issues freedom of conscience belief or religion and the forced abortions policy are related in the sense that there are people of faith catholics and others throughout china who for whom this policy is a form of repression and oppression in quite a number of different ways both physically which we have heard but also in terms of their broader human rights and their ability to think engage in freedom of conscience and in freedom of religion  the u s commission on international religious freedom has issued today a letter to president obama regarding his trip to china and in summary the letter basically makes the point that you cannot engage with china or any other country in the world on issues regarding the economy or national security or other international interests without having a very serious and no matter what other interests we think might be worth discussing in the context of bilateral negotiations again congressman thank you very much for your dedication on this issue and we look forward to what i'll be talking about later on today some of the consequences the three decade long policy of forced population control in china is really the mother of all social experiments and as we know social experiments always have of unintended consequences and the unintended consequences of one child policy in china might not even have been imagined in the worst nightmares of dun shouting and other people in the leadership already in progress we see tragic signs that are now all but unavoidable for china's future  imbalance between little boys and little girls which reggie littlejohn alluded to which is going to become a marriage in the years ahead in a society which has taken universal marriage as the norm up until now the trailing off of growth in manpower and very adverse changes in manpower for a government that has relied upon man power increases to lead to further economic growth  rapid aging of the population and still very low income levels in the context where there is no national pension system and where now the family structure which would be supporting these old people are starting to fray and not least the emergence of the one child only family system children with no brothers or sisters no uncles and aunts no cousins in effect the end of twenty five hundred years of chinese family tradition in the big cities and perhaps elsewhere the chinese leadership may think it has driven a path toward success with this policy but it is opening whirlwind which is going to blow across china's economy and society and may even imperil china's own historical tradition itself thank you very much are there any questions from the press i'll start it and any other member of the witnesses please jump in human rights traditionally and i have worked on human rights for the entirety of my twenty nine years as a member of congress whenever the downgraded whenever we speak with very soft tones little or nothing happens the argument when we were combating apartheid in south africa was we'll do it quietly and maybe something will happen it wasn't until the world gathered and said that sanctions were necessary that the abomination called apartheid was finally washed away from from south africa it takes i'm not saying that diplomacy doesn't have  valid place but when we whisper and put it on page four of a list of talking points that demotion in terms of priority is felt by the receiver in this case the chinese  dictatorship and then they trivialize it and say it really doesn't matter i do believe that when we link most favored nation status from m s n m f and from human rights in the first year of the clinton ministration at first he linked it  am the prime sponsor of the trafficking victims protection act of two thousand two thousand and three and two thousand and five there were many people closing secretary of state madeline albright who were opposed to having sanctions linked to sex trafficking and labor trafficking not even ten years later just like the internationalist freedom which also which literally heads up the commission that was created by that legislation because we have tangible penalties for those countries that engage in egregious human rights violations like sex trafficking we have seen a serious and sustained effort by many countries around the world to combat trafficking until then you can admonish and talk and jawbone all you want until there's a penalty phase nothing happens we're asking at the minimum that this president in a very transparent open and honest way one know what the issue is because not have a today when it comes to forced abortion is appalling all around the world at the united nations certainly at many parts of the state department hopefully not at the white house but the raise it and to raise it was seriousness for the sake of that poor woman who was forcibly aborted in that picture and all the other millions who have been are today and will be so abused as was said by little john this is the worst violence against women in human history how can we trivialize put it on page four at there at all can't be an asterisk with anybody else  administration's treatment of human rights in the broader agenda with china this trip by the president is an opportunity to set that record straight and to make it clear to the chinese people that policies which repress human rights either this policy or other policies respecting the freedom of conscience thought and believe need to be eliminated and then told they are eliminated there will at the end of the day not be as productive a relationship with the chinese as there should be on issues respecting trade or security or broader blow global stability of the authority and they made it now into the international community their family members history has demonstrated that whenever the united states takes a softer approach to confronting the chinese communist party on human rights issues the chinese communist party has lowered the bar and had their human rights record has become increasingly atrocious dr martin luther king once said what hurt the most was not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends and if president obama wants to convince the women of china that he is their friend it is incumbent upon him to voice concerns over forced abortion for sterilization and infanticide and if there's one thing that he could do to demonstrate to the people of the world that he actually cares deeply about the people of china and that he is taking seriously the mandate that he has as a nobel peace prize winner i would urge him to raise the case of  activist who is in jail right now and being tortured and being denied medical treatment because he exposed the fact that there were one hundred thirty thousand forced abortions and when you county in two thousand and five thank you is communist party has boasted that they have quote unquote prevented four hundred million birth as a result of their one child policy now not all of those were forced abortions some of elective abortions but the elective abortions carry their own set of issues because of the traditional preference for boys and girls are sex selectively aborted and the countryside where people can have a second child if the first child is a girl what happens with the second order birth if the first birth is a girl is that there are a hundred and sixty boys born  every one hundred girls born so even where the abortions are elective they create situations like a very dangerous gender imbalance which is now driving sex trafficking in in china the enablers and the apologists throughout all of those hearings always said the worst is behind us only to realize based on the evidence and they would never ensuring that there be only one relaxing occasionally and then going right back to heavy heavy handed tactics brothers and sisters are still illegal in one thousand nine hundred eighty five at a hearing because i table just like today several china hands told us that one hundred eighty three that's when the high tides occurred there's no more problem with forced abortion in china it's voluntary nature's static who's the former un population fund director said repeatedly including on national television that it's a totally voluntary program she said that throughout as did other un apologise and to me that was one of the most horrific whitewashes of crimes against humanity ever because when i went with punk i met with pump a young who ran the program for many years in china in beijing i met with her on one of my many human rights trips there she kept telling me in that exchange it was almost a three hour exchange that the u n f p a is here and they say there is no forced abortion and no coercion in the program and that was in the sterilization or can be chosen by the individual or for mandatory contraception so you get to pick but you still have to do it missing by a mile that it's all about women's privacy being invaded children being killed by the state in massive numbers and people being told when and if you know it is illegal in china for anyone who happens to be unwed to give birth to a baby unwed mothers don't exist in china  they have their baby on the run it is against every regulation by province throughout that country so it is as bed again they'll put out a statement and eager western press gullible in my opinion swallow it hook line and sinker and amplifies it that's why this hearing is so important that's why the work of lawyers who risk all the till we have a woman and i hope the press and all everyone to hear our second panelist tell her story because her story is the story of the average chinese woman who suffers beyond words forced abortion in china and she'll tell her story right here in an anonymous situation because we don't want her to be retaliated against chinese communist party would have the world believe that it is relaxing its one child policy this is pure propaganda and in fact and you july twenty third of this year the national population and family planning commission of china issued the following statement quote the one child policy will be strictly enforced as a means of controlling births for decades to come now the point of this hearing in part is to blow out of the water this lie that they are relaxing the one child policy and i will call attention to three documents one is a document by women's rights in china this is a april two thousand and four document where presenting two documents today one i have entitled china best practices infanticide what if the if it is still alive after induced labor what this is is it is a current whether site for o b g y n and which they are discuss what is the best way to kill infants full term infants who are being born alive after induced labor abortion current on the web the second document is entitled new evidence regarding china's one child policy forced abortion involuntary sterilization infanticide and course of family planning this document was leaked out of china in august of this year august twenty fifth of this year the person who leaked it out did so at the risk of his life and it contains sixteen cases of current forced abortion sterilization and infanticide and the web addresses of all these things where they can be found on the internet until they are taken down by the chinese communist party after this hearing are in here so it is not true that the everlasting policy i remaining in full force to this day of implementing population target population program by accident by completely random chance or by force and as long as you have population targets under trying circumstances which the government is you thank you for being here this afternoon this year we mark at least three infamous anniversaries the fiftieth anniversary of the one nine hundred fifty nine to that uprising the twentieth anniversary of the tiananmen square massacre and the thirtieth anniversary of the chinese government's one child per couple policy with its attendant harz of massed forced abortion campaigns and rampant sex selection abortion in a fashion thousand nine hundred seventy nine the course of one child per couple policy is in scope and seriousness the worst human rights abuse in the world today few outside of china understand what a massive in course system of social control the one child policy entails as the u s china commission summarized the system is quote marked by pervasive propaganda mandatory monitoring of women's reproductive cycles mandatory contraception mandatory birth permits coercive fines for failure to comply and in some cases forced sterilization and abortion the price for failing to conform to this system is staggering a chinese woman who becomes pregnant without a permit will be put on their mind bending pressure to abort she knows that quote out of play and illegal children are denied education health care and marriage and that fines for bearing killed the brave woman still refuses to submit she may be held in a punishment cell or she flees or relatives may be held and very often the group punishments will be used to socially ostracized her colleagues and neighbors will be denied permits if the woman is by some miracle still able to resist this pressure she may be physically dragged to the operating table and forced to undergo an abortion her trauma is uncomprehensible it is a trauma in some degree with virtually every woman in china who experience whose experience of intimacy and motherhood is colored by the atmosphere of fear created by the government by government threats and determination to intrude itself in a deadly fashion in the most private aspects of her life the world health organization reports over five hundred female suicides per day in china china is the only country in the world where female suicide rates are higher than the male and according to the beijing psychological crisis study and prevention center in china the suicide rate for females is three times higher than that of males the result of this policy is a nightmarish brave new world with no precedent in human history where women are psychologically wounded and girls fall victim to sex selection abortion in some provinces there are some one hundred forty boys or born for every one hundred girls and most children grow up without brothers or sisters aunts or uncles or cousins gendercide is a serious crime and it is absolutely prevalent in china today on thursday president obama travels to asia and will be in beijing for four days of meetings with government officials responsible for these crimes against humanity i hope you will conduct not conduct these meetings in the same areas spirit that secretary clinton expressed on her first visit to china when she dismissed the human rights of the chinese people as irrelevant to her relationship with the chinese government she said that we can't let human rights quote interfere with peddling the united states i believe the chinese government would respond to the president if he were to take the lead in speaking up in defense of human rights in china the chinese government is sensitive to how it is viewed by the rest of the world it is rapidly increasing its influence throughout the world serving as a new model for authoritarian regimes throughout asia and africa and it is all the more reason why we need to defend the rights of the chinese people we are not willing to work to improve human rights standards by which china is governed we're going to find china degrading the human rights standards the rest of us live by and so i  appeal to president obama seriously raise the plight of chinese women who are every day cruelly and systematically assaulted by population control police china's population control policy is violence against lantos who was then my ranking member he became chairman and i was his ranking member and he said and i quote there are few crimes against human beings which are more horrendous more despicable more outrageous than the practice of forced abortion and forced sterilization tom lantos went on to say such brutal violations of human rights must be condemned across the political spectrum and you and i have stood together through the years  condemning them again at that hearing mrs gal who ran the forced abortion program and province described yourself as a quote monster and testify that they routinely paid informants for information on women who are pregnant without government permission so i asked the president to consider the appeal of wood g n a chinese woman who will be our second panelist today victimized by forced abortion who is taking a great risk to be here today and to tell her story the story of millions of chinese women and i will very briefly just quote her in part in part about one hour the van stopped in the hospital as soon as i was out of the van i saw hundreds of pregnant injection intravenously then i was put into a room with several other moms the room was full of moms she went on just gone through a forced abortion so moms are crying some moms are mourning some morns moms were screaming and one mom was rolling on the floor bearable and i kept saying to her the abortionists how could you become a by killing people every day she told me that there was nothing serious about this whole thing for her she did this all year she also told me that there were over ten thousand forced abortions in our county that's not country county just for that year and i was having just one of them i was astonished by her words she went on and i realized that my baby and i were just like a lamb on the cutting board finally put the big long needle into the head of my baby in my womb at the moment it was the end of the world for me she went on and i felt even time had stopped because it did not come out as expected they decided to cut my baby into pieces in my womb with scissors and then suck it out with a special machine i do not have any time to think is this most horrifying surgery began by force i could hear the sound of the scissors cutting the baby body of my baby in the womb eventually she goes on the journey into hell the surgery was finished and one nurse showed me part of a bloody foot with her tweezers through my tears the picture of the bloody foot was engraved into my eyes and into my heart and so clearly i could see the five small bloody toes immediately the body was thrown into a trash can the one child policy she goes on and forced abortion policy have killed millions of innocent lives in china i say to president obama silence in the face of this author of countless reports and numerous books on human rights in china and recently founded the laogai museum here in washington d c we will then hear from reggie littlejohn was an attorney who has represented chinese refugees in the united states in the asylum cases passionate about human rights he is the founder and president of women's rights without frontiers which fights among other things forced abortion and sexual slavery in china she recently delivered an address to the european national people's congress but she bravely spoke out in defense of the people and the chinese government imprisoned she was released through an international campaign on her behalf moved to the us and is now president of the world with your congress and the your american association will then move on to young young young who was a lawyer with the beijing lobel law firm a veteran human rights attorney who has courageously represented fallen gong practitioners persecuted tibetans victims of forced abortion and jungleland young the lawyer who exposed a massive campaign of forced abortions and shandong province we would end here from nicholas eberstadt a world renowned demogra political economist henry went scholar at the american enterprise institute and author of many books and articles on asia and a member of the global leadership council at the world economics well then hear from an is the president of women's rights in china a group of chinese an american and chinese american women that conducts research on abuses of women connected to the one child per couple policy interpreter was a member was a leader who was a leader of the heroic gentleman square protest he was nicknamed the general commander and after the chinese government murderously crushed the protest it listed her as one of the twenty one most wanted students thankfully eluded the chinese secret police and she now lives in the united states just one thing about chai ling i remember asking her when she first came out at a hearing that was held on tiananmen square about the forced abortion policy i remember she said at the hearing doesn't everybody know about it which i said no there has been a conspiracy of violence especially in the united states and europe this is obviously a panel of extraordinary brave and distinguished men and women these people who have worked so hard and some of them suffered so much are acting out of a genuine concern and love for the suffering people of china i am inspired and deeply moved by them as are many of my colleagues i hope their message will be heard in the white house and far beyond through their message concerns and they themselves are witnesses of hope evil never has the last word the chinese people will make their own future despite their government because they're offering their spirit from the oppression of the government we owe it to them to speak t my testify when we were exam human rights issues in china it is easy to become by provide many numbers why wouldn't we are standing here talking about that issue which f x once fifth of the world's woman in maine twenty two percent woman we're talking about a policy which on to but for today i want the wall to focus on one woman because her story is a story off to millions who have had their basic human dignity assault today i want to talk about the woman the name is social pain so it's just thirty years old and she is currently living in control authorities now fugitives show and her husband work odd jobs i'm back in the sus stand themselves during this time they give a for every woman like so who we know about that thousands more condemning china's one child policy is not a pull life or a poor choice issue it is a poor woman china would not be a free one democratic society as long as much as such are grose violation of the basic human rights is institutionalized in the highest levels of the communist government and we know president obama ready going to visit china i hope during his trip to china next week to remember joe helping and her children they are so caught kind of criminal violation of human population control and today was seeking asylum in thailand and th most people know that china has a one child policy but do they stop to think what happens to a woman when she violates that policy and what happens to her is a forced abortion and i call your attention to the case of w who've suffered a forced abortion she was kidnapped in the street one day forcibly aborted and then they laid her there her aborted baby by her on the bed and demanded payment to remove the baby she didn't have money to pay for the removal of the baby and so they just left her aborted baby on her bed china's one child policy causes more violence against women and girls than any other official policy on earth this is not a political issue it's a human rights issue and a women's rights issue on april twenty second of this year secretary of state hillary clinton condemned forced abortion and forced sterilization in china as being completely and absolutely unacceptable another pro choice feminist has described forced abortion as torture it does not matter whether you are pro choice or pro life on this issue no one supports forced abortion because it's not a choice when we say forced abortion what do we mean we mean women being kidnapped screaming and crying out of their homes strapped down to tables and forced to have abortions even up to the ninth month of pregnancy the violence of these late term abortions procedures sometimes kills not only the fetuses but also the women themselves i am presenting three reports today and i'm asking all three of my reports two of the first two are joint china aid and women's rights about frontiers reports be entered into the congressional record with the objection the reports will be the part of the record and i would say to all of our witnesses that objection your statements in full and any documents that you would like to be so that it will be made a part of the record ok thank you the first of these documents is is a forty page document it's entitled new evidence regarding china's one child policy forced abortion involuntary sterilization infanticide and course of family planning and the bulk of this document was leaked out of china by someone who were fears life to get this information out and its new cases sixteen cases of forced abortion forced i was asian and seven of these occurred in two thousand and nine and two of these cases the women died along with the aborted fetuses just as no one supports forced abortions no one supports infanticide yet another document leaked out of china just last week discusses methods of infanticide including puncturing the skulls and inject injecting alcohol into the brains of full term fetuses to kill them during labor this document is a web format discussion from a current web site for chinese gynecologist and obstetricians it is the second document i'm presenting and it's called china best practices infanticide what is the infant is still alive after induced labor which is the name of the thread of this discussion the chinese communist party would have the world believe that is relaxing its one child policy this is propaganda to the contrary the national population  family planning commission of china issued a statement on july twenty third of this year saying that one child policy will be strictly enforced as a means of controlling birth for decades to come the chinese communist party points out that they have created certain limited exceptions to the one child rule for example couples who are both only children can now have two children in my view these exceptions do not constitute improvement the problem with a one child policy lies not in the number of children allowed it lies in the coercive enforcement of the birth limit whatever that limit may be there are at least six ways in which the one child policy causes violence against women and girls these are documented and discussed in the third report that i am presenting today called the consequences of coersion china's one child policy and violence against women and girls number one forced abortion is traumatic to women number two because of the traditional preference for boys sex selective abortion is widely practiced and most of the aborted fetuses are girls this is gender side number three because of this gender side there are thirty seven million more men than women in china today this gender imbalance is the driving force behind sexual slavery not only in in many of the surrounding countries number four china has the highest female suicide rate of any country in the world it is the only nation in which more women than men kill themselves approximately five hundred women a day i believe that this high suicide rate is not unrelated to coercive family planning number five women who have violated the policy or are often forcibly sterilized forced sterilization is a serious human rights abuse and can lead to lifelong health consequences number six women are suffering the loss of their children there is there was a film that came out last year called  the child trafficking and that film estimated are seventy million children that are being trafficked within china and also more recently it has emerged that even officials are stealing children of women if it's an extra planned birth and then selling them to orphanages for foreign adoption and this is something i think we need to look into because it affects foreign adoptions many of which come to the united states the only logically and morally consistent position for the pro choice movement is to oppose forced abortion because it is not a choice i call upon planned parenthood and narrow to speak up for reproductive choice in china in this case women's right to choose to have a baby and i call upon president barack obama as the leader of the free and as a recipient of the nobel peace prize to challenge the chinese communist party during his trip to china on the course of import implementation of the one child policy as speaker nancy pelosi stated in  recent event honoring the dalai lama if we do not stand up for human rights in china we lose the moral authority to stand up for human rights and anything else thank you thank you very much and thank you for bringing new information out of china to the attention of congress while i look forward to reading the reports that you have why i appreciate that but the real hero is the person who leaked it out because he did that at the risk of his life  the roll members of the committee ladies and gentlemen who would like to express my gratitude for this opportunity to testify here today during a sense of time in engaging the people's republic of china on human rights issues i'm surely moved by the us congress is continuing concern for the suffering of the weaker people before i begin my testimony i would like to take this opportunity to condemn the nine executions carried out by the chinese government in east auto disregard for international human rights standards i ask the united states and president obama to urge the chinese government to follow international standards and judicial procedures relates to the july fifth on rest and to stop intimidating and the terrorizing the entire population amongst the international community of multilateral organizations concerning governments and non governmental organizations there is no dispute that egregious human rights abuses against the weaker people occur on a daily basis in the objective research and the documentation by the aforementioned and it is rendered that chinese government's assertion that are the chinese government's two thousand and one law and population and birth planning and china's couples are permitted to have one child in a week or couple this in a theory but on to the national minorities with population under ten million are permits to have two in urban and three in a rural areas however this exemption from the one child policy does not mean that family planning policies are not applied to wiggers under article eighteen of the law and population and b committees as article eighteen explains local authorities are charged with implementation of national family planning policy towards minorities and at the core of the implementation of article eighteen india compulsory measures this measure to specifically entails state sanctioned violence against a weaker women through the use of kidnapping force abortions forced sterilizations and force in policy towards a weaker is a physical upin to control the natural demographic growth of the years as a people added to the as well as the forcible transfer of young women out of the historic stone to eastern china the chinese government family planning policy at as implement toward wiggers begins to take the shape of an engineered new  than them solution to the weaker presence in the region in other words after a cleansing while china's a family planning policy as implemented so the han chinese is aimed at reducing the hand population but the but the policy implemented on the wiggers aim is aimed at to gradually and legally within china's legal framework to eliminate the waiter population which is less than ten million because the chinese government considers weekers as a secular easy a threat to china's territorial integrity is spider what's written in the law and population and birth planning waiters are not free to have the number of children as legislated officials in each local thousand hand chinese doctor describe thirty five thousand women of child bearing age were subject to a campaign of government checks regarding their state of pregnancy don't campaign six hundred eighty six women are forced on their go a form of coverage nine hundred ninety three were forced to discontinue their pregnancies and attain thousand seven hundred eight women were forced on their go sterilization according to official estimates family planning  also reported that fifty eight percent of weaker women of childbearing age were no longer able to give birth this is thought to be mainly due to the prevalence of sterilisations the use of i u d is as well as a result of botched operative procedures and other mis understood as back regarding the implementation of the law is a notion that only national minorities are exempt from the one child provision this misunderstanding has given frequently promotes by the  the generous policies of the chinese government toward the wiggers however the official chinese media state only thirty six percent of the p r c population as a whole falls under the stipulation of one child policy and  and in the rural areas of p r c including these tricks on han chinese couples are allowed to have a second child if their first child is a girl behind all those contradictory and the misunderstood aspects of the law is a congress fact that wages have not been consulted regarding to the formulation and implementation of the laws articles that directly affect them the mere fact that no meaningful input has been sought for a week or so discuss their specific cultural approach to family planning means that this policy from its inception has did we lose the policy while implemented at the local levels of the government is in character centrist non negotiable and non responsive to the needs of the weaker people furthermore weavers are often confused as to why family planning law should apply to them as overpopulation is rarely chinese problem and not a concern for wiggers predominating in the more sparsely populated areas of  of the wages in the exxon has worsened since implementation of the policy with documented increases in poverty and on employment because of the decision making process for a weaker family planning is not within the control of the we people themselves and instead rest with the government having a proven track record of human rights abuses against the weaker people this lives to the conclusion that family planning policy is a more likely not designed in the bass interest of the weaker people much violates on their the implementation of the law amnesty international reports that reports of violence against women in the context of the implementation of the birth control policy in the autonomous region refers not only to the forced abortions or th a forced abortion articles prognoses was discovered when she was three months pregnant and shifts let her home village to escape the local officials who tried to force her to have an abortion at that time during our absence from her home village if she did not return the officials strategy or work and are going to return on the embry eleven the doctor who was to carry out their abortion came to her house and asked her her husband and a father to the hospital hospital at the hospital were coerced under intimidation to sign the authorization for abortion and on november sixth in article flat the hospital but she was found by police and taken back to the same hospital where she was held under guard unfortunately are going to scam to the attention of we are advocates and the with the support of on a roll of congressman smith and other members of congress later the chinese government allowed her to have the baby but her family faced severe harassment and even intimidation from the authorities and hours ago the father john s n was detained by the chinese authorities on july the second for speaking to the foreign media about the condition of her daughter and her from this one chinese woman and she told me that sure working the cash region during the one nine hundred ninety s she spoke about the fear of coming forward with information but felt compelled to do so because of the continuing abuse of weaker women's reproductive rights she described how in order to meet abortion quarters placed on local authorities in cost or official sanction the abortion procedure children rather than children from the hand nationality is abortions or force and against the wishes of the we families she added that it was mostly weaker farmers who were coerced to come to the claiming that the family has cried endlessly had to force abortions were conducted with our families and in particular rural families were targeted because of chinese officials consider this demographic as the least empowered to avoid opposition to the procedures or the least likely to know their rights under chinese law so i ask the u s government to call upon the chinese  government here at the convention on elimination of all forms of discrimination against women with the chinese government ratified in one thousand nine hundred eighty the convention states that the women should decide freely and responsibly on the number and spac its price of force abortion and sterilization among weaker women and allow us to exercise our most basic rights the right to bear children as we wish and free of state control i also raise the family planning issues of the weaker women aggressively seriously with the chinese authorities and also to raise the recent action of the wiggers by the chinese authorities thank you very much after that each province in their own versions of the law so what you want so all these were forced abortions and sterilizations procedures or the time and she was forced to have a surgical sterilization serious health problems which may last for the rest of her life on anyone yet  many planning officials took her to a small clinic and held her down on a bed alone poisonous needle punctured into her womb thomas on a the villagers were down their farms during the day and slap in the field at night under the cover of the crops and they also destinator some of the guards that there's a native some people to be guards to alert them when they hear anything strange  that around the bureau of justice in beijing looking to our involvement in this cases and asked us to report to the if we do not drop this lawsuit they will not be responsible if anything happens to our children when they go to school unquote but if i drop and then she goes on to say if i drop this lawsuit i would disappoint you the lawyers and and we not talk about human rights issues here thank you very much everybody this is john thank you very much for your testimony and just for the extraordinary work you're doing inside part and parcel of the daily implementation of forcible population control in china i will talk just for a few minutes about the consequences for china of that policy the one child policy has been underway in china for three decades now and chinese leadership deems the policy to be a great success they deem it to be a success because china's fertility level is now apparently far below the replacement level there is some uncertainty about how far below replacement the chinese birth rate is but it seems that it has probably been below the level that would be needed for replacing population without immigration over long periods of time for as much as two decades and in some areas such as urban areas it is clearly very far below this replacement level in big cities like beijing and shanghai the birth rate may be down to one birth per woman per lifetime or even lower than that but the one child policy is a social experiment and all social experiments have unintended consequences the long term unintended consequences of the one child policy will be with china for many decades and they are truly sobering to consider i'm going to speak about four of the the most obvious of these unintended consequences is the imbalance between boys and girls that has emerged in china over the past generation in ordinary human populations there is a biological regularity to the number of little boys for hundred little girls it's usually around one hundred four or one hundred five and this was the case in china before the one child policy began but chinese statistics document a march away from biological normality that has taken place in china over the past generation impossibly high numbers of little boys now correspond with little girls in china according to the most recent chinese population survey over one hundred and twenty little boys for every one hundred little girls six little boys for every five little girls and that's a nationwide average in some of china's provinces and remember these are problems says the size of large european countries the imbalance is above one hundred and thirty little boys for every one hundred little girls  there are people of course who say that this is due to backward ideas or poor education or lack of wealth and this is a circumstance that will not continue in china and to those people we can point out this simple fact china today is more affluent than it has ever been before its population is better educated than it has ever been before china interacts with the world more than it has in many many generations there is more interaction in the realm of ideas and contact china is more globalized today than it has perhaps ever been we have to understand that globalization with chinese characteristics and one of these characteristics today is the one child policy means increasing gender imbalance is in that country so what does this mean for china's future little boys and little girls have a way of growing up and today's little boys and little girls are going to be tomorrow's prospective brides and bridegrooms marriage is on an almost unimaginable scale has been set in motion for china in the years ahead as if we're going to all be privileged to watch a sort of a science fiction movie that will be playing out on our watch we haven't ever seen anything like this happen before what will it look like i can't tell you i can tell you however that we have got a little bits of information coming in today from germany that may help inform us in eastern germany due to migration not sex selective abortion  e eastern part of germany the new federal states have very big imbalances between marriage age men and marriage age women if you look at a map of modern germany you will see that the map of right wing extremist voting matches almost perfectly with the areas where these gender imbalances have emerged so china stay tuned there are some there are some other aspects that also are less obvious but very much related to the one child see that are coming into play in china in the years immediately ahead one of these is going to do with manpower availability over the past three decades the period of china's fantastic economic the sand been very rapid growth in china's labor force over the next three decades due in part to the one child policy there will be no growth in china's labor force there will be negative growth in chinese labor force add to that the fact that there will be a change in labor composition that is hardly favorable young people coming into the workforce are typically those who have the highest level of education the newest training and standards there's going to be an enormous slump in that group the labor force in china over the years ahead of replicating past economic success is in no sense going to be easy for china in the immediately ahead there will be one population explosion in the decades immediately ahead however and that explosion of people over the age of sixty five china's population over the age of sixty five will be growing by about three percent a year china will be on pace for one of history's most rapid grains ever seen the only country which can be compared with china in our experience to date in terms of rapid population ageing is japan but of course there is a big difference between japan in the recent past and china tomorrow japan grew rich before it grew and china is going to do it the other way around and the other way around is much less pleasant and  today after all has no national social security system no national pension system limited parts of the pension system but they're probably financially unsustainable under the pressure that will be put on and the traditional social security system in china is known as the family and as we know the family is going to be fraying in the decades immediately have just fifteen years from now something like one out of three women in china approaching retirement age will have no living son which in the confucian tradition is the first line of response for family members what is going to happen to china's old people in this brave new world that we will soon be  final one final point we're thinking about is the enormous and radical transformation of the chinese family that has been set in motion not least due to the interventions of beijing population planners the chinese demographers themselves project that by twenty twenty five which remember is only sixteen years from now the majority of young adults in china cities will be only children and they will be the generation of only children and their children if also single children will bring to china a new family type which we've mentioned already here a cohort of people with no brothers no sisters no uncles no answer no siblings only ancestors and descendants as blood relatives this is something very new very difficult to conceive of in the chinese tradition it may imperil chinese tradition or to gather chinese culture all together but in a more prosaic way we can think of just one aspect of this for reasons that may be quite obvious china is a low trust society and up until this very present moment business economic relations and other part other sorts of social transactions have depended into girly point extended family networks what happens in china in this brave new future when the one she cannot include family members i'm afraid we're going to find out in the years immediately and the answers may not be pleasant thank you very much thank you very much for your insight and very disturbing look into where china is today and where it is i'd like to now ask of any the president of the women's rights in china organization to present her testimony thanks colleagues able to expose that to public and that practice every things that she and her colleagues have committed to the country you call of women's rights in china and missing children and formalized organization called women's rights in china most recently they pulled a personal savings to commissioned investor to report off china's continuous abuse a violation against women's and children's rights under the one child birth policy royal villages regarding their practice of one child policy they came out with a disturbing discovery of the current three examination policy and practice in rural areas had a said they're currently two hundred a million women of childbearing age in china and among them eighty three percent of them use a using birth control and contraceptive options are investigator i went to one of the villages the exact this practice what job i go to speak person for the government has said the following is completely false given the evidence with discovered through the investigation he said the people woman a village out of town they have to report to the other local villages check in point to make sure they can mail the check in result back to their hometown for some reason if that resort would last mail all the failed to do that and now the additional fine would be implemented and i show this picture as a record keeping for the officers for each the woman their checking results when having the period what w their potential pregnancy issue we erased the names of these people from the report protect the identity use policy these countries have a range of for the putting to the woman like shackles of putting them they're being tracked like animals being watched monitored and potentially punished and if river there are many mothers who are brave enough to remove their reins and they have to live on the boat as boat people in terra imagine a baby who had to hide  womb for nine months before conceived would be born into a society for more dangers then the womb and watch mother to face potential cruel punishment jail time and heavy fines then when the child when the judge child grow up and he or she will have to live on the same restriction of the one child birth policy and before sleep alive a fear of fairness the following appalling example of what actually taken place in a and doing that as a result of the pedants rebelling against this three ring three chegg xampp practice as reported more than fifty thousand people from the counties surrounded and destroyed govern buildings and smash a country rose and when the government people came back to suppress the rebound and more than two hundred people were cast and hundreds student were captured and jailed from the government own web site it boasted that they marshaled fifty eight hundred my power and you lives more than two hundred cars and they're able to conduct more than seventeen thousand cases a woman to force a tie their tubes perform abortions and install countries have reins they also able to impose the fines of just seven point eight eight r and b this content was sequentially the lead from the website our investigator what actually had happened let to the point of this uprising and what happened each individual family after that what we learned through the process is that the local peasants had enjoyed up to ten years worth of of this policy recently recently that policy become intensified so while the parents of our already having a second or third child in the past they could just pay couple hundred m b s to get away with it now they're being forced  the have a given place severe fines for the children already born and already in the middle school age and because of the corruption among government officers and birth control places each family were treated quite families was given very heavy fire and some again was not so much that create a lot of equity among the people and so given all the rumblings among the peasants the government decided to conduct a very massive intensive suppression they round up three levels of cards and police men into a large military action and they marched town by town family by family women by women to make sure no one no one xscape this kind of policy invest ation and forced abortion they imposed a thousand r and b find women who do not make their  appointments and make sure the court would enforce the payment during their process of this massive investigation is like the invasion from for force when they go knock on door by door village by village the the conduct of policy called where one ring to type procedure in which they will drag the woman out to go to hospital which the ring would be forcefully inserted and a potential tube would be tied if they had more than one more than two or three children in march things march first two thousand and seven the leadership of the birth control policy was established by the ball by county police force had read of those houses of extremely poor families and villages tore down the very meager existence and destroyed possessions the peasants are hiding in the mountains along the lake shores more than two hundred fifty mothers captured and arrested at a reservoir near the town of journeying and taken to a hospital there again similar things taking place the problem was given abortion shabd the women who are not pregnant will found this to be the last straw the that's why they stormed the the the plea the birth control please and smash global warming's afterwards they have to keep the mountains but they were eventually surrounded  family members were not able to escape with the woman with taking a hostage is taken to her as hostage by the police force and eventually large fines imposed among these families this uprising was ultimately cruelly defeated and the rebelling villagers was forced pay such have to find some of the mothers have to agree to tie their tubes in order to beg the government to release their sons and some of them gotten sick and calmly scholar's family were forcibly break up and so this is the same kind of brutal methods applied during the chamma massacre use brutal force to tara and to restore order and was called and repeated in the villages most recently there's another similar breakout just took place the beginning of two thousand and nine in shane she in the same kind of manner and same kind of operating and also was brutally crushed so i do want to show some of these pictures because the picture do show do speak a thousand words one is similar picture was reggie littlejohn has shown earlier and about this poor woman who is for support her baby and now the picture is this young female female child was simply abandoned on the road because a family may want to have a chance to have another baby boy under this one child policy and some of these slogans terrorize the whole nation called the pregnant pregnancy would permit birth with permanent another slogan on the wall with so when you're required by policy to get abortion but if you don't your house will be a steroid a ball full will become confiscated here's another slogan said above board it kill it term it it just can't and to try to make this whole tragic easy get down the society they start making artworks and flags in the side to make sure people think they have a one child policy is something beautiful and you know can be packaged and to be sold among the society because of the pressures of torre's a female a boy and so a lot of young female infants either abandoned different places or to some the fortune was banished to the local pam polls in one of the county there are over fifty buddhist temple and that these are examples of cover the buddhist temple took ing in this young female about her clothing needs saying you don't have to spend money and to to buy clothes for her and just take some from the older kids who have grown and again i beg you masters please be kind to my child and want to come back to see you again and then after this china's one child birth control policy and really and show to prove that this pulse not only has it had not loosened is only intensified more and more and so recently h province me young county the thirty year thirty two year old couple teach how you they are able to have legally askew have a second pregnancy but because they are not they cannot afford three hundred r and b to acquire birth permit even though by law birth from a should be given for free and they will find additional seven thousand  because in september this september they could not afford to pay the fine the birth control please came over to the home arrest the mother who just gave birth very slowly and locked her up for three days with no food and no water and they couldn't find the father and they went beat up the grandparents and and their young son and one young child and so the kid right now is having nightmares when she went go to sleep so they took away the television and tractors imagine a farmer was not able to have any tools to form now the fire to grow to be eighteen thousand r and b so this case this fine to continue to be increased on a daily basis this case does continue has not been scary so the the the the wife right over to the mountain to hide for nine months as soon as she got pregnant of husband would go to visit her once a while to feed her with some food every couple days and she said i'm not afraid animals and woof i can deal with them and we are freed of people and eventually she had come back to hospital give birth to twins and here the the mother heard the baby cry but they took the baby away and told her the baby was dead and they believe something had to be the baby was most likely stolen their neighbor to one couple they had legally given birth to their first form because they had to pay the three hundred armed b birth permit the husband was forced to go outside to to make some money and he's a farmer they don't make three thousand dollars is the reason because they do the farmer they don't how much money so three days before the wife do you date and the birth control please came to them a for director to force a bore the baby and the crying mother w only be given one look for the baby after she was born as the baby was born and said she can only have it when she has a three thousand arm b course she did not have it so when the father reached home when hauser want to find  the baby and these are you got to go see the birth planning committee of please people and by the time she got he got over there they told him that the baby was dead was already crme unaided later only learned that the baby was  these are new additional cases and that really need to stopped and again given president obama's visit to china he has absolute responsibility to stop this cruel prior practice i don't think is i have to say it's illusion or delusion for the us present to go to trying to believe the kind stablish a treaty to partner with china with a country that the human life and the human rights and women's rights so profoundly disrespected the mall the more economic exchange and relation he has core breeding with china under this strategic partnership the more this kind of behavior philosophy value system can be become part of our society the merican society is he's responsibility as american president to protect the liberty and the rise of american people and by stopping china's genocide against women and rise he can stop this kind of value system behavior conduct penetrate into the u s in the form of lead paint on the toys in the form of poison in the baby milk powder and for many many things we don't know today he must speak out and stop like what reggie littlejohn has brought forth blows apart the myth that somehow the forced abortion policy the one child per couple policy is abating it is actually getting worse and with the sale of proceed thank you congressman for the privilege to speak before the commission today i will make brief remarks but requests that the population planning section that i drafted for the two thousand and nine report be submitted for the record without objections or thank you the subject matter that brings us together is an important one one that sometimes gets neglected in discussions of human rights in china two thousand and nine marks thirty years since the chinese government first introduced its system of population and family planning to troels the system was canonized as a quote fundamental state policy in one thousand nine hundred two and codify it as national law in two thousand to china's population policy today has elements of both change and continuity the widest reaching change has been the easing of birth limits imposed on couples in rural areas as of two thousand and seven nineteen of china's thirty one provinces accounting for fifty three percent of the population allow girl residents to have a second child if their first child is a girl most women in urban areas are still limited to bearing one child those several municipalities are now allowing younger couples in which both spouses have hail from one child households to have two children despite the introduction of these less stringent regulations troubling elements of the population planning policy also persist i wish i could report that coercive measures are a thing of the past but official chinese government sources that i have analyzed in my work at the c c c indicate otherwise i will begin my discussion at the less aggressive end of the scale of course of measures there chinese authorities employ heavy fines as were just mentioned and other financial penalties against violators of the population planning policy officials refer to these fines is quote social compensation which for many couples pose a dilemma between and undergoing an unwanted abortion and incurring potentially overwhelming financial costs in november two thousand and eight for example the people's congress amended the province's family planning regulations to impose stricter standards for social compensation fees for couples who have a second out of plan child says she now assesses a fine equal to twenty percent of the couple's combined income once per year for seven years if a couple has a third child the fine is levied annually at forty percent of combined income for a fourteen year period many localities are now placing marks against a family's financial credit record for their failure to pay social compensation fees and just in february of two thousand and nine the gonzo municipal government in junkie province established a collection management program which stipulates that violators who refused to pay the fine should be added to a credit blacklist in china's banking system at least one county and whole bay province has begun to deny retirement benefits to teachers who exceed the limit in forstmann of the population planning policy to neighbors friends and family against one another as many localities offer monetary incentives to informants who report violators to the authorities in two thousand and nine the beijing municipal population and family planning commission began offering rewards to informants who report out of planned pregnancies and extramarital pregnancies in july young teen shandong province announced rewards as high as three thousand yen for citizen informants the most invasive forms of coersion used to enforce birth limit forced abortion and forced sterilization remain commonplace in many areas of china as are other witnesses have testified to the population planning required regulations of at least eighteen of china's thirty one preventable level jurisdictions permit a fish to take steps to ensure that birth quotas are not exceeded in practice these steps can include forced abortion and forced sterilization in some cases local officials co abortions even in the third trimester of pregnancy quote determination of pregnancy is explicitly required if a pregnancy does not conform with regulations in eight provinces in ten other provinces population planning officials are authorized to take quote remedial measures to deal with out of planned pregnancies in two thousand and nine the commission analyzed official reports from local governments and over a third of china's thirty one preventable level jurisdictions and we found that the term remedial measures which will torture and chinese is used anonymously with compulsory abortion i will now provide examples of language derived from government reports that refer to abortion as an official policy instrument in november two thousand and eight circular issued an issue joe municipality and junks the province declared a quote month of concentrated corrective activities for family planning officials stress that officials must quote of void going through the motions and should instead quote resolutely implement abortion and other remedial measures strictly standardize the birth policy adopt a remedial measures for each and every out of planned pregnancy and reliably prevent out of plan nine's county authorities developed the plan for two thousand and nine that outlined abortion targets for specific groups and i quote again strictly prohibit the birth of multiple children for women who have multiple out of plan children and become pregnant again the abortion rights must exceed one hundred percent must reach one hundred percent for women who have to out of plan children and become pregnant again the abortion rights must exceed ninety percent for women who have one out of planned child and become pregnant again the abortion rights must exceed eighty five percent in quote a june two thousand and nine report from joe junk ownie and junkie province plainly stated and i quote abortions must be performed on all individuals with unplanned pregnancies within the allotted time period to ensure the birth policy compliance rate reaches the standard and some local governments specifically target migrant workers for forced abortions in april two thousand and nine authorities ingenius county  and province drafted an implementation plan for a month long family planning campaign involving door to door inspections when migrants without a planned pregnancies are discovered officials are instructed to quote promptly report to higher authorities and resolutely implement remedial measures the implementation rate for medial measures must reach one hundred percent and include means the capital of you know in province businesses tha employ migrants are required to report out of planned pregnancies to the authorities if the worker fails to have an abortion after receiving a formal written notification to do so from family planning officials authorities can deduct a fine directly from her wages after fifteen days the government can impose an additional fine for each day that passes that she does not take remedial measures to terminate the pregnancy and  finally it is important to note how some province's link job promotion with an official's ability to meet population planning targets thus providing a powerful structural incentive for officials to employ coercive measures for example in january of this year when you sign county and province published a family planning responsibility manual that meeting five points are added for each mid to late term abortion beneficial overseas and two points for each first trimester abortion the same number of points is deducted for each child born out of plan as long as such linkage is exist between career advancement of local officials and the use of forced abortion sterilization coersion is certain to remain a prominent feature of china's population and family planning system thank you thank you very much for your scholarly insights and for your determination to make sure that it gets where it ought to be in the reports of the commission puts out every year and i thank you for writing that and for inviting all of us on the china executive commission as you have done so well let me just ask a few questions and i know hearing in the press conference has been long a do want to get to our second panel and all of your testimony have been exhaustive and i and very comprehensive and i salute you for that but i do have just a couple of questions starting with mr mr john you made a very profound statement in your in your testimony that the victims had no one to appeal to and since i got involved in this issue back around one thousand nine hundred eighty three i've been shocked and dismayed by how not just in china but throughout the world there has been so little interest concern compassion empathy for the victims of forced abortion both mother and baby and men who want desperately to protect their wives and then are unable to and often suffer as well miska dear reminded us that china has ratified the commission  convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women it has a panel of experts that promote abortion and promote other things to the best of my ability to discern have been a wall absent without leave as we say silent about forced abortion in china for these many years and their experts convene frequently where is china being held to account geneva for the annual meetings of the human rights commission before it matriculate into the human rights council and found it hypocritical in the extreme that virtually all of the focus of that commission was on israel's tiny small israel for its alleged abuses greatly amplified by some hate mongers when simultaneously china would get no real focus at all  that the chinese diplomatic corps and their foreign policy apparatus would buy off nations with foreign aid to be silent or to vote for resolutions or do abstain on resolutions that would be proffered by the united states sometimes with the european union members joining in so they get off scot free to this date the chinese government has a seat and is in good standing with the human rights council  forced abortion and you know how they handled it they shut down the press conference rather than answer any questions and be held to any scrutiny as they ought to be turned off the mike and walked out after making some derogatory remark towards me so i your point is well taken it is in china it's only you and a few others who bravely raise the cases of forced abortions why is it any of the panelists might want to speak to this that the u n f p a the u n population fund aid and abet and whitewash these despicable crimes against women why is it that it's treated with such kid gloves kid gloves by the international community where's the european union frankly where is the obama administration so many would like to speak to that obviously hope springs eternal the reason for those hearings timing is to appeal to our president to raise the issue whatever past is past you to why no harry wu you have been very frustrated by this lack of concern and empathy with the suffering people of china you know we tried to get c span here they found other things more  important in their editorial judgment thankfully there have been a few reporters here but this message has to get out and it's about time this government executive as well as legislative step up to the plate and treat this  is the greatest violation of women's rights in all of human history so any of you would like to touch on that issue why this conspiracy  if i might congressman i can tell you something that isn't exactly top secret at the united nations population fund and in other parts of the  international population community the ideological mind is very much crafted by the notion that overpopulation is  great challenge facing humanity in the future and people will sometimes turn a blind eye to abuses in the service of what is seen as being a greater good that human beings just being a sort of instrumentality grander program i can also tell you something that may be somewhat more informative which is that my  colleagues in china who are demographic researchers do not have such a different view of the situation from the one that i presented to you among trained  specialists china increasingly majority of assessments seem to be that the program caused much greater difficulties than it could possibly be you can see what sort of impact their recommendations have made but that the expert assessment increasingly within china itself  thank you thank you  just before becoming becoming pregnant or having an additional child out of the china quarter system and also their children of course just a board by the chinese authorities where the portion doctors there are treated as big role but the united states the people in china or chinese all believe that the u s could help change the situation on the ground but but what is disappointing is of course  administration of human rights during her first visit secretary clinton basically said global warming and the financial crisis dominate the agenda that human rights other things should be on the side and this is really a disappointing news because people in china hope u s can protect their rights whereas u s is no longer interested in those rights so from her point of view is downgrading  he said i don't know how come you don't know yeah i don't know i don't care i just want to see the products it's good quality on time and that's frequently whatever they want so today china become a major labor force country in the world you never heard any trouble from the labor force know strike no argument because the labor force controlled by to come so that's why america and to pursue your if you go to china first of all we have to to meet the american business inside china is deeply involved with communist so that's why in this area into business area and just in china issue american mostly third  didn't want to talk about the human rights they want to just avoid it to keep it away well as any jing jang said in her testimony it's not just the land as you say and everything else it's there won't see it says mothers or she said mothers are given their respective china their wombs are the property of the communist regime raise like livestock with their very you subject to approval that is that is as that's a dictatorship that is beyond anything any of us can imagine and i would like to ask you if i could and shiling as well in talking states or in europe or perhaps anywhere else why is that and what can you tell us further about that ok coding that two hundred people and one hundred students are still jailed or are they still jailed w willing to talk about i'll do anything about it including the media out of it and there i think these are a result of several factors one when i look back when i gather all the facts more information about t m a massacre one thing i learned which again this has never been shown to the mainstream american media that is the chinese government impro ching the days of june fourth massacre they have a d terms of anticipating and study what is the foreign media as a reaction to that action what is a foreign government reaction to that action what are they gonna do about it and when and where and how most more method they  the by the by the tanks when the student and i were already leaving was drawn from the square peacefully and their whole strategy is very simple they want to use absolute proof brutal force terrorize a nation exchange for to kill two hundred thousand people to change for twenty years of so called stability and they believe the down that the foreign media the foreign government going to scream bloody murder for our love for few more years and they don't care and they said as long shut up regarding human rights well we did and that's a policy continued for the past twenty years they are to a large degree successful and then they have conduct follicle media campaign they call them soft campaign and it is you know true we have all the services again and court a certain amount they systematically buy off in a pain the independent internet owlet where these kind of information can be spread out and controlled certain humorous activist organization was no longer a vocal they no longer monitor changed what happened in china the rest to make sure bring the for me to see what they do is gather report ri report and the funding to the human rights activists as time is the will have mentioned are decreasing substantially and more more media outlets are being controlled or invested or you know advertised supported of in many ways bought off so that is a deep concern is the truth we for the for the buried down you know in that situation and what concerned me when i first came out from china i was very tormented because i felt like when i was can i jam a square we were told we waited until last hour because somehow there was a rumor saying the us government will intervene if the chinese are there to kill us we waited s officer who was in charge of the u s policy china i said sir please help me understand why and he said well we don't care as excuse me so what are you saying he said we do not here this government does not care and he's a very senior officer and he was i guess he was helpful to tell me the truth and that was that was helpful in lightning and in a way that even though this is all disappointing because the u s government did not believe probably profoundly that the china's human rights is americans human rights i think that is a message will sooner or later come to home when china and us become the most intensely together so countries are partnership the china's value system the valises how they violate human rights how humans lives are not worth anything how they just it's how this is property of the state it will come into our life would take our liberty i believe that a day of heart weakening will come but right now we're in the days of darkness it's just hard and thank you for your continued effort and support  let me just ask one final question again because of the time you had a dozen questions but the impact on chinese families as you mentioned the east german i guess model and just how extremism there's been the alarm bell raised red flags and yet nobody seems to be listening one of them said by two thousand and twenty some forty million men will not be able to find wives because of the of the gendercide that has occurred since one nine hundred seventy  bride selling is profound and yet underappreciated even by our own government and and certainly the same countries and others who are in proximity to china need to be watching out for the theft of their women through sex trafficking rings and the like but it both of you could touch on and finally and i'll ask one final question and many more but one more the world health organization study that many of us have cited five hundred women pre date who commit suicide i have asked myself in china on several trips that i've taken women who have been hurt by the forced abortion the sorrow the almost guilt because they are unable to protect their their unborn child even through no fault of their own and the mental anguish the clinical depression we know that as a result of abortion even in a country like the united states and the several studies including one in new zealand one among the nordic countries that found that clinical depression doubles sometimes even triples because of abortion and that's not coerced abortion we know that the impact on  subsequent children i just came across several new studies that show that increased in low birth weight among subsequent children when there's one abortion goes up by thirty five percent two or more abortions up to ninety three percent for pre term babies the leading cause of mental emotive retardation is prematurity so it seems to me that china is going to do and is experiencing big increases in pre term birth plus depression among its women manifesting itself in the extreme when actual suicide does occur why aren't the d'amato why aren't the social scientists academics in the us who'd love to do that kind of thing in china why are they looking at the harsh reality of what it's doing that is to say the one child per couple policy to women in china who are suffering want it they are the walking wounded and so are their subsequent children and it seems in china in eastern germany since unification there's been a migration of more educated more qualified women out of the new federal states the former east germany into other areas of germany where there may be more opportunities this is this is the cause of the gender imbalance that has developed in eastern germany and in the areas where there are the most on  marriageable men there is as i mentioned also this tendency towards more extreme most of od'ing patterns obviously some of the extremist voters are not these unmarriageable men but it's part of the atmosphere which develops  in that sort of a circumstance it is perhaps possible to think of different sorts of social arrangements that might be able to create social tranquility and china where growing numbers of men have no future in married family life but that would seem to be a little bit more complicated given a confucian tradition where harmony and might take a little bit more inventiveness and it's not clear that the government can snap its fingers and spontaneously create the new norms and ways of thinking that would be required for this as far as the question of this project or model out china's demographic future for the next several decades their work suggests even with fairly we might say optimistic  ns that at least twenty percent of china's young men will never married in this future twenty years twenty five years thirty years from  now and as i said earlier that's the science fiction portion of the program how how do we imagine the story line in which the conclusion is this had no effect at all what is twenty percent translate  to actual number of men well of course it depends on each birth cohort but we're talking about we're talking about tens and tens of millions of man going on for going on for decades going on for decades because this has already been set in motion the marriage crisis twenty five years from now is being experienced in the cradle in china today the government controls the the resources in order to conduct certain researchers other scholars would have to get the funding from the government in order to do that so you also  suicide and it's linked to forced abortion and as we mentioned china has by far the highest suicide rate in the world the only country in the world that has more women than men committing suicide three times the number of women and men kill themselves five times in our national average and i do believe that this is connected to the one child experience of forced abortion something that comes through the two documents that two of the three documents that i've submitted is the link between abortion and funding of the family planning centers that's in this china best practices infanticide was the infant is still alive after induced labor  one of the o b g y n talks about how he or she is receiving pressure to perform more abortions because it results in monetary gain for their family planning center and then in this other one new evidence regarding china's one child policy towards abortion infanticide course of family planning this document is forty pages long and there are some really lengthy and detailed case studies in here where women talk about the experience of not only the coercive being dragged out of their homes and having their wounds punctured by these long needles but the agony of feeling a child that they have completely bonded with who could be up to the ninth month of pregnancy struggling and dying from having poison injected it is brain to me that is unimaginable horror because it's something that's happening inside the body of of the woman and then as you mentioned in the in the testimony that i believe we're going to have today that sometimes the way that these fetuses are extract it is beyond a nightmare of babies being cut apart with scissors and extracted piece by piece with the mother being completely conscious and not even having anaesthetic now of course nobody can be allowed to go into china and actually do a study of abortion that connection between abortions and suicide because it why is congress party will not allow anyone to gather that kind of information but one can only imagine i can only imagine how i would have felt if i had been grabbed out of my house in the middle of the night and dragged down by my government and forced to abort my child now one of the differences between china and the united states is that in the united states where we have elective abortion people have abortion count post abortive counseling because even where an abortion is elective which is not as traumatic as being forced ok there is still a lot of counseling therapy religious healing services that you can go to in china is the exact opposite you have a forced abortion you have to pay for it and there is no counseling at all so these women are left bereft not only that there's a story in here about a woman who tried to escape the forced abortion and her father was taken and beaten for days and finally somebody went to her and said look if you do not give yourself up for an abortion your father will be killed so she then went and had the abortion and then came home after having had this horrific it for abortion experience to be with her father who was also recovering and in this in a state of  moaning trying to recover from the severe beating he had received to say that this is unrelated to the female suicide rate makes no sense to thank our extraordinary panel of witnesses for your herculean efforts on behalf of human rights in china in general and the victims of forced abortions past present and god forbid but likely to happen in the future and for their children and for their families this record will be very widely disseminated to members of congress to the executive branch  livable very believable and credible but extraordinary evidence so that we can hopefully combat these crimes against humanity so thank you so very very much i'd like to ask our second and she will be brought in momentarily we will provide an ability for not her real name so the only thing i can say about her is that she is a very very brave woman she is here today to speak for the millions tens of millions really of chinese women been similarly violated and out of love for the child that was taken from her she is here to give her testimony chinese government crime is very public and every tragedy is of course something very private and personal so i think it's very fitting that she testify publicly that we respect the privacy as well as her face she has my and i'm sure all of our greatest respect and deepest sympathy words cannot express adequately knowing what she has been through and we'll just take one brief moment while the privacy screen is set up to hear testimony so recess for just a moment  found out that i was pregnant you had passed i was extremely hubby in the meantime i was very fearful know when people discuss is when people discuss the topic of family planning or birth control they become very fearful that they were very fearful eventually my pregnancy was reported to authorities by someone other government officials in the beginning they cannot find me so they took to my my father in law oh that my falling was b i was being beaten every day did when i was in the vehicle i realize i am not the only person in the car  guy looks like he was in his twent in the room was filled with people who are ready to get to get abortions you there was no words they did not say anything i could telephone down from their voices the nurses were very young quiet he did not move at all now they would call my baby into pieces with caesars and then they were stuck it out with a special machine body was what kind of mom and my what happened and i and i was crying and i was talking to my to my child will we see this you know i don't want to live i want to die in fact part of me has already died part of me was already gone and it was gone  t i clearly saw five small bloody to universe but for me as time goes on the suffering is getting worse and worse and the memory is getting more clear t now as i live in this world i have my family members with me i do not feel lonely y i have never shared this experience with anyone before words really are inadequate to express my i would say our sympathy for what you have lost i would just say that by testifying you not only inform you inspire us to accelerate and do more for those women who are being persecuted in her and you motivate us to unceasingly work and pray for you and for others who