Forced abortions in China. WARNING: depressing and distressing. But please read.

[PlumpDogPillionaire]

I've just seen this article:

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/14/china-forced-abortion-photograph

I can't stand having this knowledge and not fighting against these sort of abuses. I know canvassing for organisations like Womanking and Amnesty International may be useful. Does anyone have any more ideas about ways to fight against this treatment of women in China?

(Womankind, that is.)

Shocking and sad.

Sadly, this woman's story is not unique. Official figures are hard to come by, but some NGOs estimate that the numbers of forced or coerced abortions each year is at least in the hundreds of thousands. Forced sterilisation or implantation with birth control products is also commonplace. This report also makes harrowing reading.

Who can honestly say that they check the place of manufacture of products they buy to try to avoid supporting the Chinese economy?

Sorry, I grossly mis-remembered the figures quoted in the report I linked to. At page 35 of the report:

"There are 16 million forced and coerced abortions a year in China, but when counting on the numbers of abortion pills sold, possibly close to 23 million. According to the Chinese Government?s own statement, more than 70 percent of these women are by those who are unmarried. That means more than 10 million young women suffer this fate every year, up to 27,000 every day, 19 every minute."