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Hello and welcome Bill Martinez here. Great to have you
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with us, sharing a part of your day. For more
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information on the show, you can check it out Bill
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Martinez Live dot Com. With us is Reggie little John.
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Reggie is a graduate of Yel Law School, worked as
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a litigation attorney for eight years. Founder and president of
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Women's Rights Without Frontiers and International Coalition to Expose and
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opposed forced abortion, what we're calling gender side and sexual
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slavery in China, and the free blind activist Cheng Guancheng.
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She just testified before the US Congress, at the European Parliament,
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British and Irish Parliament as well and brief officials at
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the White House, the United States Department of State, and
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the Vatican. Reggie, welcome to the show. Good to have
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you with us.
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Thank you so very much for having me. Bill, it
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is a pleasure to be here.
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Well, I'll tell you the topics and topics I should
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say that we have to address are very important. We're
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going to focus on China. China is in the news
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in so many ways, and most of the time it
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has to do with the economy. Of course, the tariff
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war that continues, but little is said about the gender
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side and what they have done, which when you go back,
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historically started with the one child policy, which has had
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its it's great effect on the population decline in in China,
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and of course this has caused a ton of other
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cascading issues as well. And of course the one child
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policy came about in nineteen seventy nine, which ended in
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twenty fifteen, and so along with that you got a
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lot of unintended consequences, right.
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Absolutely so, As you mentioned, I am an attorney of
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graduate of VL Law School and I practice litigation for
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eight years and during that time I represented a couple
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of refugees from China in their cases for a political
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asylum in the United States, and they were both victims
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of the one Child policy in terms of forced abortion
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and also the sex and also forced sterilization. And one
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of my clients had been literally picked up. She had
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two kids, so she violated the one child policy and
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they literally picked her up and dragged her out of
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her home screaming and crying, and held her down to
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a table and performed a tubal ligation, which is abdominal
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surgery without anesthesia, with a massive infection, and was permanently
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disabled from that point forward. So that's when I left
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the practice of law and founded Women's Rights Without Frontiers
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to stop forced abortion in China under the one Child policy.
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So this was, you know, in the mid two thousands.
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And I don't know if you want to play our
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original video it's called stop forced Abortion in China. But
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this is what was going on at the time when
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I founded Women's Rights Without Frontiers. And there's one graphic
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image in that video which I would just if you
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don't want to see a graphic image of an aborted baby,
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just close your eyes when I say, and I have
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a picture of this, just keep your eyes closed for
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about fifteen seconds.
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Okay, let's go ahead and call that up now, rebel.
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I'm a litigation attorney and in the nineties I represented
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a client who had escaped China. I represented her in
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her case for political asylum in the United States, and
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she had been forcibly sterilized. That was my introduction to
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the reality behind the one child policy. In fact, China's
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one child policy causes more violence against women and girls
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than any other official policy on Earth. I call it
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China's war on women and girls. When I say forced abortion,
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I mean women are literally dragged out of their homes
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or off the streets. They can be jailed in family
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planning jail cells, forced to abort children that they want,
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and this can happen all the way up to the
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ninth month of pregnancy. Some of these forced abortions are
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so violent that the women themselves.
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Die along with their full term babies.
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One case that I'll never forget is of a young
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woman who was seven months pregnant without a birth permit
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so that would be an illegal pregnancy, who was walking
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down the street and she was grabbed by family planning cadres,
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dragged off the street, strapped down to a table, forced
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to abort the baby that she very desperately wanted. And
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in the end, one of the medical personnel came to
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her with a body of her aborted baby and said,
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you need to pay for this so that we can
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dispose of the body, and she said she didn't have
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any money, so they just laid that body right next
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to her in the bed, and I've got a photograph
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of her looking down and just grieving the loss of
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this seven month old baby that.
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Was forcibly aborted.
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It does not matter whether you are a pro choice
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or pro life on this issue. No one supports forced
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abortion because it's not a choice, and this violence must stop.
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My goal in establishing women's rights Route Frontiers is to
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end forced abortion and sexual slavery in China, and to
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that end, I have testified before Congress, I've addressed the
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European Parliament, brief the White House. When I started this
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several years ago, no one was talking about.
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The one child policy.
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And now because of the documentation that has been generated,
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two things have happened. Number One, the Chinese Communist Party
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cannot deny that the one Chill policy is enforced through
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forced abortion, forced civilization.
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And infanticide. At Number two.
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It seems that almost everybody is talking about it at
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this point, has become a household issue. Stop the violence
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and China's war on women. Forced abortion is not a choice.
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What a powerful video forced abortion. This is the most
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incredible You say that more people are aware, but we
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have a long ways to go yet, because as you stated, Reggie,
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I mean what has started out is infanticide has now
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gone its course to become gender side. And we'll talk
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about that in a moment, but I want to really
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sit on this infanticide that's been going on in China unchecked.
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And I guess China is just their own protected nation
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in such a way that the people are silent.
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Internationally, well yeah, I mean China has infiltrated its way
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into the health organization denied nations, including the United Nations
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Human rights counsels, no one is. And also they have
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trade relationships. You also have a debt trap diplomacy where
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like in developing country and even some developed countries, they
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will finance infrastructure and then in the fine print and
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infrastructure meaning a railroad, an airport, a port, but in
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the fine print, what it says is if you can't
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pay the loan back, we will own this infrastructure exactly.
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And so that that has enabled them to get massive
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infrastructure all over the world, and it keeps countries just
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silent about them, not wanting to confront them because they
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don't want China to call their debts. So China is
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basically unaccountable to anyone. So this when I made this video,
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and this was I don't know when I made this,
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like two thousand and nine or something, or maybe twenty eleven.
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You know, one chill policy was just rampant. Right now,
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they've gone to a two chail policy to a three
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chail policy, and I have called repeatedly for them and
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any policy of coercive birth limits. You know, they are
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actually desperate for having more babies. Why are they keeping
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why are they saying what the current law is, which
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is every couple, every married couple is allowed to have
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two children, which means that legally, under their own laws,
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they can go and forcibly bored an unmarried woman or
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a fourth child. And you know, as a fourth child myself,
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I stand for the rights of four children to live
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right but anyway, So but then when they moved to
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a two child policy. In the three child policy, people
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kind of assumed that more girls would be allowed to
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be born because under the one child policy, so many
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couples they could only have one kid. But they really
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wanted was a boy, a veil, and so then they
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would you know, the Chinese, there's two different kinds of
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forced abortion they're going on here. There's force abortion by
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the government and there's what I would call gender side.
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I would call that forced abortion by the culture or
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by the family. So with a government, if you don't
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have a birth permitter, if you are out of policy,
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then then they then they can forcibly bort you and
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I and I think that these forced abortions have gone
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down in mainland China. But I think one of the
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reasons that they want to keep that law on the
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books that only every married couple is allowed to have
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three children is to use it selectively against disfavored minorities
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such as the wigers in Shinjong or the develops. Right, So,
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I mean, I can't understand any other reason that they
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are keeping that law on the books other than that.
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And I'm sure they could recall your permit. You may
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have a permit for three children, but if they arboritrarily
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decide that, uh, now we say, now today you only
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have two.
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You know, something that happened Bill, Yeah, okay, that happened.
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That happened to the Wigers. So what happened to the
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Wiggers is as a minority, they were allowed to have
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three children. And then when the when China went from
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a one child policy to a two child policy, they
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said to the Wigers, you know, we now have a
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two child policy where applying this across the board, and
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therefore you have three children. So either we're finding you
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or we are going to put you in jail. And
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they have, you know, like these weaker concentration camps, right,
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and one of the big reasons that people are in
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there is because they have three kids. And that is
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another reason that the one child policy to the three
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child policy. One of the reasons one of the many
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reasons that people are not wanting to have kids, especially
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more kids, especially where I am in the countryside, is
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that they could just reverse it. They could say, okay,
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you have you know, you have three children when it
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was legal. Now we're going back to two child policy.
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So we're gonna you know, we're going to find you
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for that third child. So that there's no trust to
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the government. But what I wanted to say is that's
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the government forest abortion. The force abortion that's by the culture,
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by the family, is a sex selective abortion of baby girls,
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which we call gender side, which even under the two
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child policy and the three child policy, is still being practiced.
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So the Congressional Executive Commission on China recently came out
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with a statistic that said that for third children, there
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are one hundred and thirty three boys born for every
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hundred girls born in China. That means that there are
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thirty three girls aboarded for every hundred girls that are
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born in China. About a third of the girls who
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are third children are are boarded because of their gender.
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Now that's officially, So.
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What's going to happen with these boys when they grow
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up and they're looking for a.
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Spouse, Well, what has happened? So there's a massive gender
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disparity in China and there are I mean I've heard
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various estimates from thirty million to forty million or more men,
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more men in China than women. And what that does
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is it it creates a situation of in the in
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the countryside, they have these things called bachelor villages where
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the women because they are upwardly mobile, will go to
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the local town or the city to marry, so that
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the men in the poor villages have no women at all.
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And that is you know, that is a resume for
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social unrest exactly. And then they also have sexual slavery
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and human trafficking, including across international lines. But anyway, with
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respect to the gender side, you know, most people in China,
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if they have a boy, a lot of them will
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just say, okay, we've got our boy. We're not going
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to have any more kids. Then if they say and
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that happened under the one child policy, then when the
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two child policy opened up, there was one couple where
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they had a girl under the one child policy. Under
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the one child policy, and they figured, okay, we're one
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and done. We've got a girl. Then it opened up
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to a two child policy, and the husband said to
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the wife, let's have a second child. Let's have a boy.
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And he forced her to abort four baby girls in
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a year and then she died. Well, this is the thing,
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is that a lot of people who are willing to
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go to the effort and expensive having a second child
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in China, they have a girl for the first child.
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They want a boy. For the second child and for
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a third child. You know, it's very expensive to raise
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a child in China, and a lot of couples who
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are willing to go to the effort and expensive having
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a third child in China, it's because they have two