(LifeSiteNews) — Chinese Ambassador Sun Lei excoriated the United States for not supporting abortion-on-demand in recent remarks to the United Nations, while America accused the Communist regime of supporting population control.
The Center for Family & Human Rights (C-Fam) reports that Lei was speaking before Executive Board of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), where he said, “The U.S. government brutally denies U.S. women access to reproductive health care” – i.e., the murder of the unborn – part of alleged “widespread systematic violations of women and children’s rights.”
By contrast, he claimed that UN funding for programs within China was “empowering women, children, and vulnerable groups, in line with the core values of the United Nations, human rights and development.”
An unidentified American delegate countered that “China’s coercive family planning policies are antithetical to America’s promotion of individual liberty. Millions of families have suffered under China’s destructive approach to population. Generations of women continue to suffer the harm of this excruciating legacy which included barbaric forced abortion and involuntary sterilization.”
“The US stands for the rights of the individual, rights that the Chinese government utterly disregards,” the delegate said, and America “remains prohibited from funding any organization that supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.”
America also said that China did not need international subsidies that would be better spent elsewhere. “China is the world’s second largest economy. A country that can fund its own space program and build aircraft carriers should fund its own development,” the delegate said. “Every UNDP dollar spent in China is one less for countries that truly depend on that funding […] The UN was formed to support the vulnerable, not underwrite geopolitical ambitions of a major power.”
For decades, China implemented its infamous one-child policy of limiting family size through forced abortion and sterilization, amid hopes of cutting the country’s population to under 1.2 billion by the end of the 20th century. In 2016, concerns that there would be too few young workers to replace and support an aging population led the Communist regime to allow couples to have two children. That concession sparked a brief population spike that year, but it didn’t continue into 2017. In 2021, the government relaxed the allowed number of children to three.
The UN, meanwhile, has long been biased toward pro-abortion agendas behind a pretext of “human rights,” from criticizing nations that ban abortions to attempting to establish an international “right” to abort, all while taking a selective approach to actual human rights violations from offending nations such as China, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.
In May, the Trump administration withdrew the UNFPA’s $300 million in U.S. funding.
