Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson, a long-time vocal opponent of abortion, said Monday that while he opposes the idea of forced abortions in China, he understands why Beijing controls its population. If every family over there was allowed to have three or four children, the population would be completely unsustainable. China has a strict one-child policy, which it claims is necessary to control its population.
Abortion is legal in China and is widely used as a birth-control method.
But Chinese government authorities deny they have a policy to force women to have abortions against their will. However, there are periodic reports, sometimes even in the Chinese news media, that forced abortions do occur in some parts of the country. Robertson said China, already wracked with unemployment, will see hundreds of thousands more jobless people as antiquated state-owned factories are eventually shut down. So, I think that right now, they're doing what they have to do. I don't agree with forced abortion, but I don't think the United States needs to interfere with what they're doing internally in this regard.