By Richard Finney and Nadia Usaeva
(Radio Free Asia) – Changes recently introduced to China’s brutal
one-child policy are not likely to reduce the number of forced abortions
or ease human trafficking in the country, according to a prominent
American women’s rights activist whose group is battling forced abortion
and sexual slavery in China.
Reggie Littlejohn, founder and president of California-based
Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, said Beijing’s move allowing couples
to have two children if either parent is an only child under a so-called
reform of the one-child policy “is not going to end gendercide,” the
voluntary sex-selective abortion of baby girls.
“And even if it did—even if the numbers of girls improved
immediately in response to this modification of the one-child policy—the
effect of that would not be felt on human trafficking for decades to
come,” she said in an interview with RFA.
A traditional preference for boys among Chinese families has
created a gender imbalance as some couples opt for sex-selective
abortions.
Littlejohn said that while the Chinese government has promised to
end
gendercide, “they have not taken any effective action whatsoever.”
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