In the operating room I saw the child's lips were moving and how its arms and legs were also moving. The doctor injected poison into its skull and the child died and it was thrown into the trash can. The Chinese government denies it encourages such abortions. But the White House does not dispute the allegations. It insists the best way to deal with this and other problems is to engage the Chinese government directly.
Critics say the president's policy is wrong.
Clinton will be the first U.S. president to visit China since the government crackdown at Tiananmen Square in 1989. A coalition of human rights activists, including conservative Gary Bauer and liberal Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, has written to Clinton asking that at a minimum he stay away from Tiananmen. They have expressed no remorse for that. In his speech, the president will also defend his controversial authorization of U.S. satellite launchings on Chinese missiles. That too may be a tough sell.