IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 220 
Concerning the response of the United States to forced abortion and the 
coercive one-child policy in the People’s Republic of China, and the 
resulting ‘‘gendercide’’ of girls in that country. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 27, 2007 
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey submitted the following concurrent resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Concerning the response of the United States to forced abor-
tion and the coercive one-child policy in the People’s 
Republic of China, and the resulting ‘‘gendercide’’ of 
girls in that country. 
Whereas since the 1980s the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China (PRC) has enforced a general one-child 
policy, which limits most women to bearing one child, 
though some women in rural areas are permitted to bear 
a second child, particularly if their first child is female; 
Whereas the PRC Government coerces compliance with this 
policy by pervasive propaganda, mandatory monitoring of 
women’s reproductive cycles, mandatory contraception, 
mandatory birth permits, mandatory sterilization or con-
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traceptive implantation, and government control of birth 
spacing; 
Whereas the PRC Government coerces compliance with this 
policy by punishing failure to comply and refusal to abort 
‘‘out-of-plan’’ children with fines (called ‘‘social com-
pensation fees’’) which often range from roughly one-half 
to ten times the average Chinese annual income; 
Whereas the PRC Government coerces compliance with this 
policy and pressures women to abort ‘‘out-of-plan’’ chil-
dren by means of job loss, group punishments (imposing 
penalties or denying benefits to entire villages, factories, 
and work units in the event of a single ‘‘out-of-plan’’ 
birth), and beating and abducting relatives of women who 
are pregnant ‘‘out-of-plan’’, so that they are socially os-
tracized and put under social pressure to have an abor-
tion; 
Whereas the PRC Government physically destroys the homes 
of some of those who do not pay social compensation 
fees; 
Whereas the PRC Government creates an atmosphere of fear 
in which most Chinese women feel they have little choice 
to comply with the Government’s draconian birth-limita-
tion policy; 
Whereas as recently as May 2007 it was credibly reported by 
the New York Times and the Washington Post that the 
PRC Government ordered a crackdown on population 
quotas and ‘‘out-of-plan’’ births in Guangxi province, 
that Guangxi family planning officials conducted a cam-
paign of violence in detaining citizens, searching homes, 
confiscating valuables, and destroying homes, and that 
this campaign provoked riots in which thousands of citi-
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zens in eight townships fought with riot police, over-
turned official vehicles, and damaged government offices, 
and that several officials were killed in these riots; 
Whereas the PRC Government has passed legislation that 
makes it illegal to force women to have abortions; 
Whereas at least 7 PRC provinces require abortion of chil-
dren whose birth would violate provincial regulations, 
while at least 10 PRC provinces require unspecified ‘‘re-
medial measures’’; 
Whereas many Congressional hearings and reports in leading 
newspapers and newsmagazines throughout the world 
have established that PRC officials charged with imple-
menting the one-child policy frequently violate PRC law 
by physically coercing abortions; 
Whereas the PRC Government encourages its officials’ illegal 
coercion of abortions and sterilizations by making the 
promotions and bonuses of local officials depend on meet-
ing population targets, and by failing to punish officials 
who physically coerce abortions; 
Whereas PRC officials have punished citizens, including legal 
advocate Chen Guangcheng, who have publicized popu-
lation planning abuses by local officials; 
Whereas the PRC’s policy of coercive birth limitation has 
caused Chinese couples, many of whom have a cultural 
preference for sons, to abort or abandon female infants 
so that they may try later to have a son, resulting in a 
male to female birth ratio for first births of 121 to 100 
and a male to female birth ratio for second births of 152 
to 100, according to official PRC figures; 
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Whereas the male to female birth ratio has been growing 
steadily wider since the 1980s, according to official PRC 
figures; 
Whereas the ‘‘gendercide’’ caused by the PRC’s policies has 
already created a generation of young men of whom tens 
of millions will not be able to find wives, due to the tens 
of millions of missing women; 
Whereas the coercive birth limitation, in limiting most cou-
ples to one child, has created generations of young peo-
ple, few of whom know what it is to have brothers or sis-
ters, or aunts or uncles, and the cultural impact on the 
PRC of this historically unprecedented situation is un-
known; 
Whereas in June 2006 the PRC’s National People’s Congress 
withdrew a proposed law that would have criminalized 
sex-selective abortion; 
Whereas the Population and Family Planning Law of the 
PRC contravenes standards set by the 1995 Beijing Dec-
laration and the 1994 Programme of Action of the Cairo 
International Conference on Population and Develop-
ment, to which the PRC is a signatory, by limiting the 
number of children that married women may bear and by 
banning unmarried women from bearing any children; 
Whereas the PRC Government contravenes standards set by 
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 
International Covenant of Economic, Social, and Cultural 
Rights, to which the PRC is a signatory, by discrimi-
nating against ‘‘out-of-plan’’ children by denying them 
basic health care, education, and the right to marry; 
Whereas the PRC Government contravenes the 1994 Pro-
gramme of Action of the Cairo International Conference 
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on Population and Development, to which the PRC is a 
signatory, by setting population targets; 
Whereas the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the 
Child proclaims that the child ‘‘needs special safeguards 
and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as 
well as after birth’’; 
Whereas since 1979 the United Nations Population Fund 
(UNFPA) has been involved in supporting, promoting, 
and facilitating the PRC’s oppressive one-child program; 
Whereas Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and 
George W. Bush have determined that UNFPA supports 
the PRC Government’s program of coercive abortion or 
involuntary sterilization; 
Whereas UNFPA support for the PRC Government’s pro-
gram of coerced abortion and involuntary sterilization 
violates the ‘‘Kemp-Kasten’’ provision of United States 
law; 
Whereas former UNFPA Representative in Beijing, Sven 
Burmester, has said that, ‘‘China has had the most suc-
cessful family planning policy in the history of mankind 
in terms of quantity and with that, China has done man-
kind a favor’’; 
Whereas former UNFPA Executive Director, Nafis Sadik, 
has said, ‘‘I have had the honor of being associated with 
China’s reproductive health and family planning pro-
gramme for more than two decades. I was instrumental 
in initiating UNFPA’s cooperation with China in 1979 
. . . I also feel proud that UNFPA made the wise decision 
to resist external pressures and continued its fruitful co-
operation with China.’’, and moreover claimed that, ‘‘the 
implementation of the policy [in China] and the accept-
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ance of the policy is purely voluntary. There is no such 
thing as, you know, a license to have a birth and so on.’’; 
Whereas UNFPA Executive Director Sadik also said, ‘‘China 
has every reason to feel proud of and pleased with its re-
markable achievements made in its family planning pol-
icy. The country could offer its experiences and special 
expertise to help other countries,’’ adding that the 
‘‘UNFPA is going to employ some of [China]’s family 
planning experts to work in other countries and popu-
larize China’s experiences in population growth control 
and family planning’’; and 
Whereas paragraph 31 of the UNFPA Country Program 
Document for China, issued on October 10, 2005, states 
that the UNFPA will seek to ‘‘enhance the role of China 
in the international arena, including through greater 
South-South collaboration’’ and to ‘‘seek to strengthen 
the capacity for South-South Collaboration in the areas 
of reproductive health, ageing, gender and HIV/AIDS’’, 
thereby indicating its plans to assist the PRC Govern-
ment in exporting its population planning program to 
other countries: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) strongly condemns the continued violations 
of human rights by the Government of the People’s 
Republic of China (PRC), including— 
(A) the limitation of the number of chil-
dren a woman may bear, as well as the intru-
sive system that supports this limitation, which 
includes setting population targets, mandatory 
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monitoring of women’s reproductive cycles, re-
quiring that women obtain ‘‘birth permits’’, and 
government control of birth spacing; 
(B) coercing compliance with its birth limi-
tations through job loss, social ostracization, 
fines, and the creation of an atmosphere of 
fear; and 
(C) violent enforcement of its birth limita-
tions through policies that encourage officials to 
physically force women to have abortions and to 
be sterilized, to destroy homes, to beat and 
abduct the relatives and friends of women preg-
nant ‘‘out-of-plan,’’ and the punishment of 
those who publicize such abuses; 
(2) urges the PRC Government to cease these 
policies, which have led to the social catastrophe of 
‘‘gendercide’’; 
(3) urges the United Nations Population Fund 
(UNFPA) to cease all its activities in the PRC and 
to withdraw from that country; 
(4) affirms certain internationally recognized 
human rights, including— 
(A) the right of women to bear children 
unconstrained by government policies which 
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would limit the number of children they bear or 
prevent them from bearing children; and 
(B) the right of children not to be dis-
criminated against by a government because 
they were born contrary to a government plan; 
and 
(5) asks that the President and the Secretary 
of State— 
(A) raise the concerns expressed in this 
concurrent resolution with the PRC Govern-
ment; 
(B) call upon the PRC Government to 
cease immediately the policies outlined in this 
concurrent resolution; and 
(C) continue to withhold funds from 
UNFPA due to UNFPA’s continued involve-
ment in supporting coercive abortion and steri-
lization, which violates the ‘‘Kemp-Kasten’’ pro-
vision of United States law. 
Æ 
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