IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 705 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Chinese Com-
munist Party should be condemned for engaging in coercive abortion 
practices, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 2, 2007 
Mr. BILIRAKIS (for himself, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. 
MCCOTTER, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. RENZI, Mr. SOUDER, Mr. 
FEENEY, Mr. TIBERI, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, and Mr. ADERHOLT) submitted 
the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the Chinese Communist Party should be condemned for 
engaging in coercive abortion practices, and for other 
purposes. 
Whereas the People’s Republic of China is an authoritarian 
police state in which the Chinese Communist Party 
(CCP) is the paramount source of power; 
Whereas the citizens of China do not vote for the members 
of the CCP; 
Whereas the citizens of China do not have the right under 
Chinese law to change their government; 
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Whereas the unelected members of the CCP have imple-
mented a one child policy the goal of which, with some 
exceptions, is to limit each couple in China to one child; 
Whereas the CCP, and government officials obliged to enforce 
the CCP’s one child policy, have violated and continue to 
violate the rights of women and citizens of China by en-
gaging in economic and physical coercion in pursuit of 
the CCP’s one child policy; 
Whereas the CCP has passed a law which purports to pro-
hibit the use of physical coercion (but not economic coer-
cion) to compel persons to submit to abortion or steriliza-
tion, and holds this law out to the international commu-
nity and its own people as evidence that there is no such 
problem in China; 
Whereas, however, this CCP propaganda is contradicted in 
the Department of State’s Report on Human Rights 
Practices in China, published on March 6, 2007, in which 
the Department of State determined— 
(1) the CCP’s birth planning policies utilize harshly 
coercive elements in law and practice; 
(2) the penalties for violating the law are strict, 
leaving some women little choice but to abort preg-
nancies; 
(3) reports of forced sterilizations and abortions con-
tinued to be documented in rural areas; 
(4) officials who help persons evade the birth limita-
tions are subject to significant sanctions; 
(5) social compensation fees for violations of the one 
child policy are set and assessed against mothers and 
families at the local level, enabling corrupt officials to en-
rich themselves while zealously enforcing the one child 
policy; 
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(6) forcible action is used as an enforcement mecha-
nism, such as detaining family members or confiscating 
and destroying property of families who refuse to or can-
not pay social compensation fees; 
(7) seven provinces require ‘‘termination of preg-
nancy’’ if the pregnancy violates provincial family plan-
ning regulations; 
(8) an additional 10 provinces require unspecified 
‘‘remedial measures’’ to deal with out-of-plan preg-
nancies; 
(9) it continues to be illegal in almost all provinces 
for a single woman to have a child; in fact, social com-
pensation fees are levied on unwed mothers; 
(10) the country’s population control policy relies 
not only on education, propaganda, and economic incen-
tives, but on more coercive measures such as the threat 
of job loss or demotion; those who violate the child limit 
policy by having an unapproved child or helping another 
to do so face disciplinary measures such as job loss or 
demotion or loss of promotion opportunity; imposing fines 
and refusing to allow persons to return to work based 
solely on the fact that the woman became pregnant or 
gave birth to more than one child is commonplace; and 
(11) in the case of families that already had two 
children, one parent was often pressured to undergo ster-
ilization; these penalties sometimes left women with little 
practical choice but to undergo abortion or sterilization; 
Whereas on September 1, 2002, China adopted the Popu-
lation and Family Planning Law, which requires couples 
who have an unapproved child to pay a ‘‘social compensa-
tion fee’’; 
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Whereas the social compensation fee policy is a harsh and ef-
fective enforcement tool that is used to force women to 
have an abortion by imposing fines that ranged from one- 
half to 10 times the average worker’s annual disposable 
income; 
Whereas the CCP publicly admits that it does not consider 
the social compensation fee and other administrative pun-
ishments to be coercive; 
Whereas the one child policy of the CCP results in the citi-
zens of China being forced to make horrific choices re-
garding the life and death of unborn children; 
Whereas many families use ultrasound to identify female 
fetuses and terminate pregnancies, due to the preference 
for male children in China and the penalties imposed for 
having more than one child, particularly in rural areas; 
Whereas an official study in Hainan Province found that 68 
percent of abortions were of female fetuses, where preg-
nancy was terminated in the hope that the next child 
(and only child permitted) would be a male; 
Whereas according to a 2002 survey, 35 percent of women 
in one rural township admitted to having an abortion be-
cause of a preference for a male child; 
Whereas female babies also suffer from a higher mortality 
rate than male babies, contrary to the worldwide norm; 
Whereas state media report that infant mortality rates in 
rural areas are 27 percent higher for girls than boys, and 
a higher percentage of girls are found in orphanages; 
Whereas the CCP’s claims that it does not use coercion to 
enforce the one child policy are further refuted by the im-
prisonment of Chen Guangchen; Mr. Chen is a blind ac-
tivist who was working on behalf of victims of the one 
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child policy; Mr. Chen accused local health workers in 
Shandong Province of forcing people to have late-term 
abortions and sterilizations; 
Whereas local rights activists documented cases of forced 
late-term abortions, and at least 7,000 people had been 
forced to submit to sterilization procedures; 
Whereas in 2006, Time Magazine named Mr. Chen as one of 
the world’s 100 most influential people for exposing the 
atrocities; 
Whereas the response of the CCP was to silence Mr. Chen 
by accusing him of frivolous law violations, arresting his 
attorney on the eve of trial, and imprisoning Mr. Chen 
for 4 years and 3 months; 
Whereas despite international protests, Mr. Chen remains in-
carcerated; 
Whereas on August 24, 2007, Yuan Weijing, the wife of 
Chen Guangcheng, was kidnapped from Beijing Airport 
by authorities and beaten as she attempted to fly to the 
Philippines to accept an award on behalf of her impris-
oned husband; and 
Whereas Yuan Weijing was forcibly returned to her home vil-
lage: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That— 
(1) the House of Representatives declares 
that— 
(A) pregnant women in China possess a 
fundamental, inalienable right to carry their 
pregnancies to term and to deliver their chil-
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dren free from coercive tactics designed to force 
a woman to abort her child; 
(B) the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 
and government officials in China have no right 
to impose a fine, dismiss from employment, or 
in any way punish a pregnant woman, her 
spouse or members of her family based solely 
on the pregnant woman’s exercise of her in-
alienable right to carry her pregnancy to term 
and deliver her child; 
(C) Article 16 of the Universal Declaration 
of Human Rights, adopted and proclaimed by 
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 
217 A (III) of December 10, 1948, provides 
that adult men and women ‘‘have the right to 
marry and to found a family’’; and 
(D) the use of the power of the govern-
ment by the CCP to coerce abortion and steri-
lization is immoral, reprehensible, and a viola-
tion of the Universal Declaration of Human 
Rights; 
(2) the House of Representatives expresses its 
regrets and condolences to the innocent victims of 
the CCP’s one-child policy; and 
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(3) it is the sense of the House of Representa-
tives that the United States Government should pub-
licly condemn the CCP’s one child policy, coerced 
abortions, and coerced sterilizations at appropriate 
United Nations bodies and other international and 
multi-national forums, and ensure that preparations 
for such actions be made at appropriately high levels 
and with the widest possible support from other 
United Nations member states. 
Æ 
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