We have reached the annual event where President Bush denies the United Nations Population Fund the $34 million allocated for it by Congress.  Bush denies the funding by finding the U.N. agency to be violating U.S. law that denies funding to any organization that is involved in forced abortion and sterilization.  Since the Population Fund has been implicated for supporting the forced abortion and sterilization policies in China, it is not entitled to receive the funding. 

This year a Congressional hearing was held to support the President by bringing out more information on what is really happening in China.  These stories of forced abortion, forced IUDs and permanent sterilizations, and torture of those who publicly object to these policies demonstrates the tremendous violation of human rights that regularly takes place in China.

Pro-Life attendees noted that no so-called pro-choice organizations attended these hearings.   They do not seem to have any concern about the lack of choice faced by Chinese women.  Why are the National Abortion Federation, Planned Parenthood, National Organization for Women, and other feminist groups not coming to the defense of women in China? 

The story about torture of a woman who publicly protested Chinese policy must have finally become too much of a potential public relations problem for them.  Can you believe that the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Population Action International, British abortion business Marie Stopes International, Catholics for a Free Choice, and a representative of the Episcopal Church USA actually sent a letter to the Chinese government protesting the inhumane treatment of this woman?  

Is that how bad things need to get before these organizations get concerned?  Can we conclude that they have no problem with forced abortion and forced sterilization because the only action of the Chinese government that generates a response from them is aggressive torture of a woman who demanded her reproductive rights?  Of course, she does not mean abortion when she uses that phrase, because she wants the right to have babies, not abortions.