[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 93 (Tuesday, June 19, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H3743]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CHINA'S ONE-CHILD POLICY

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Madam Speaker, last week, I received an extremely 
disturbing report about China's one-child policy from China's central 
Shaanxi province. Feng Jianmei was 7 months pregnant and home alone 
when she was abducted by government family planning officials. She was 
taken to a hospital and bound while her child was administered a 
powerful poison. After she gave birth to her dead child, without the 
aid of painkillers, the baby was then left beside her on the hospital 
bed, as shown in this picture. Her husband is a common worker, who has 
no recourse for the crime that has been perpetrated on his wife and 
child. Family planning officials in Shaanxi took this gruesome step in 
order to meet their quotas under China's brutal one-child policy. This 
is further evidence that government officials routinely take extreme 
measures to enforce China's barbaric one-child policy.
  It's a human rights issue. It's far past time that the Chinese 
government stop this terrible repression and end the destruction of 
lives. I call on Secretary Clinton to condemn this policy in the 
strongest terms.

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