A Chinese mother of two died following
a sterilization procedure that government family planners forced her to
undergo, over the objections of her doctor.
Shen Hongxia, 42, leaves behind a
husband and two children, Life News reported.
Her doctor had warned Family
Planning Officers against the procedure, saying she was not healthy enough and
it could place her at risk. But planners said she they wanted to avoid an
“illegal pregnancy,” Life News said.
After her death, planners and
Village Committee officials agreed to provide her family compensation and to
build them a house, in order to put a stop to further investigation. Life News
said the family members felt as if they were forced to sign the agreement.
“Women’s Rights Without Frontiers
strongly condemns forced sterilization and all coercive family planning in
China,” said Reggie Littlejohn, president of the group, to Life News. “The fact
that Shen Hongxia’s doctor had clearly warned that sterilizing her could kill
her makes her death the responsibility of the Family Planning Officers who forced
this violent surgery upon her. Compensating her family with money is not
enough. Those responsible for her death should face serious criminal
charges.”
Ms. Littlejohn said this is the
second fatality due to China’s forced sterilization policies in just the past
few weeks. And it’s not exactly a well-kept secret.
“The Chinese Communist Party
recently admitted to performing 196 million sterilizations,” Ms. Littlejohn
said, in Life News. “I first learned of the brutality of China’s One Child
Policy by representing a woman who had been forcibly sterilized. Family
Planning Officials literally dragged her out of her home kicking and screaming,
held her down to a table and cut her open with no anesthesia. She said it felt
like someone was burning her insides with a blowtorch.”
See original story here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/8/chinese-mother-dies-after-government-forced-steril/
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