Obama to Facilitate Forced Abortions in China

John McCormack links to a BBC report indicating that more Chinese women would like to have more than one child. Beijing's one-child policy, of course, has drawn condemnation from around the world.

According to McCormack:

Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush all refused to fund the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) because the organization helps China execute its one-child policy (and because the UNFPA also funds the occasional unseemly eugenics program). But Barack Obama, like Bill Clinton before him, has pledged to reverse the course of his Republican predecessor and fund the UNFPA. It's somewhat ironic that feminist organizations are the interest groups pushing most strongly for UNFPA funding.

Apparently, if thousands of Chinese women are forced to abort their unborn children--and baby girls, in particular, are targeted for death--well that's just collateral damage in the cause of "women's rights", in the view of groups like NOW. Of course, to be fair, feminists claim that UNFPA does not directly support forced abortions in China. I'm skeptical that UNFPA equipment and funds do not aid some of the doctors performing forced abortions, but it's indisputable that that the Communist party gives local bureaucrats population control goals to meet. When number of births exceeds the desired limit, the bureaucrats sometimes decide to round up women and abort their children. For example, in April 2007 in Guangxi province, "61 pregnant women were injected with an abortive drug after being dragged to local hospitals".

If Obama funds China's population control program without requiring China to prosecute those performing forced abortions--or, ideally, requiring China to do away with its one-child policy altogether--there will be a lot more horrifying stories coming out of China--brought to you, in part, by the American taxpayer.

The last thing we'll see on this is Democratic-leftists protesting Obama's pledge on the UNFPA. The progressive-left devalues life and champions moral depravity, not just in the protection of life, but in traditional family values and the sanctity of moral goodness.

This particular Obama policy pledge is truly an abomination, and it's one more reason folks should be concerned about the coming to power of "The One," and reason as well to oppose the nihilist left mercilessly.