Police force abortions on Christian women*

Dozens of unborn reported killed by mandatory chemical injections

Posted: April 20, 2007
China Aid

Dozens of unborn babies have been killed in a sweep by Chinese
authorities of the Guangxi province that snared pregnant women and
brought them against their will to a hospital for fatal abortion
injections, according to a Christian ministry that monitors the district
and ministers to those in need.

"After 41 women were forced to have abortions on [Tuesday], China Aid
Association has learned that the Youjiang District People's Hospital of
Baise City performed forced abortions for at least 20 more pregnant
women on [Wednesday]," an alert from the organization said.

China Aid, which has its U.S. offices in Midland, Texas, confirmed that
eyewitnesses are reporting that the latest roundup of pregnant women
involved more than 20, who were transported to a hospital by government
"Family Planning" authorities.

"Within 30 minutes, about 10 of them were injected forcefully for an
abortion. This means within [the] last 24 hours, at least 61 babies were
killed by forced abortions," the sources within China told CAA.

"At bed Number 37, Ms. He Caigan was nine months pregnant. Officials
injected her baby's head and 20 minutes later, her baby stopped moving
and died," the sources confirmed.

Many of those targeted in the killing rampage were Christians, CAA said.

"About 6 a.m. on [Wednesday], Pastor James Liang's wife Ms. Wei Linrong
gave birth to a boy, but he was dead because of the injection. She
received three injections – one is to induce the birth and the other two
to kill the baby in the womb," CAA's sources reported.

Liang formerly was a pastor in the government-sanctioned Three-Self
church before he became a House church pastor a year ago, according to
information from China Aid Association's Bob Fu. Eyewitnesses told CAA
that the couple wanted to keep their child because of their Christian faith.

Officers from the government surrounded the section of the hospital
where the women were being held, the report said.

"CAA urges the international community to register your protest and
concern with letters and phone calls to the chairman of the National
Population and Family Planning Commission, Party Secretary of Baise
City, Mr. Liang Chunlu, and the Youjiang District People's Hospital,"
CAA said.

The Population Research Institute's research earlier indicated in the
past the United Nation's Population Fund, into which the United States
had poured money, actually has assisted Chinese government efforts to
force married couples to have only one or two children.

China maintains, at least in some areas of the country, a one-child
policy sometimes enforced through a policy of forced abortions. It is
believed China performs some 10 million involuntary abortions a year.