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United States Consumerism Partly to Blame for China's One-Child Policy, says Chinese Victim of Policy

By Michael Baggot

CHINA, April 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A mother who experienced first-hand the cruelty of China's one-child policy publicly testified in an online interview that China's human rights violations continue and that United States consumerism is partially responsible for the nation's crimes against humanity.

Shiu Yon Zhou, who fled China in 1993 to avoid punishment for breaking her homeland's strict population control policies, shared her traumatic experiences with WorldNetDaily.com on Friday.

Zhou's "crime" was being pregnant before the 23 year age China's policy stipulates.  Zhou recounts being shackled, imprisoned at a hospital, and drugged so as to kill her illegal unborn child.

Through her father's ingenuity, Zhou managed to escape from her country and catch a boat to the US with other countrymen.  She said that her contact with her suffering parents and brother confirms that conditions in China today are little better than they were when she escaped the county.

Zhou told WND.com that she believes US consumerism is partly to blame for China's continuingly cruel policies.  US demand for Chinese consumer goods places pressure on Chinese manufactures, thus leaving little time for family life.  Forced abortions free Chinese workers from childbearing and let them work the long hours necessary to feed US consumer demand, observed Zhou.

China's history of human rights violations has caused uneasiness about the privilege the nation was given in being chosen to host the 2008 Olympic Games.

"[Our] prayers [are] that with the world focused on China prior to the Olympics, these horrific human rights abuses will be exposed and American free traders put to shame for how they have turned a blind eye to the human suffering for the almighty dollar," said Leslie Hanks, vice president of Colorado Right to Life.

Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping introduced the Chinese one child policy in 1979 as a "temporary measure."  Under the policy, many Chinese women pregnant with a second child face fines, forced sterilization, or forced abortion from the government.

This past March, nearly three decades later, the Chinese government indicated that the policy would remain in effect over the next decade.

Shortly after US news reports suggested that China was considering a revision to its one-child policy, Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, told China's parliament that the country "will adhere to the current policy of family planning."  Likewise, the state-run Beijing News reported that "news of abandoning the one-child policy is inconsistent with the facts."

Read the full interview with Zhou:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=62656

See previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

British Group Criticizes "Misleading" Headlines about End to China's One-Child Policy
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/feb/08022905.html

Thousands of Chinese Peasants Riot over Brutal Birth Control Campaign
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/may/07052202.html

China Labels Stanford Researcher "International spy" For Exposing Forced Abortion Policy
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/aug/050826a.html

China's One-Child Policy to Cripple Chinese Economy
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/feb/04021806.html
 
China Admits its Girl Shortage Caused by One Child Policy is a "Major Threat"
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/may/04051107.html
 
Learn more about China's one-child policy:
http://www.pop.org/main.cfm?EID=699

 

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