China's ambassador taunts US for its pro-life policies at UN

(UNITED NATIONS, C-Fam) In rhetoric similar to his pro-abortion domestic opponents, a Chinese Ambassador at the UN attacked President Trump’s pro-life policies and accused the U.S. government of denying women abortion and contraception.

“The U.S. government brutally denies U.S. women access to reproductive health care”, Ambassador Sun Lei said this week during a meeting of the Executive Board of the UN population agency (UNFPA). This he claimed was part “widespread systematic violations of women and children’s rights” in the United States.

The U.S. had challenged millions of dollars of United Nations programming in China, including funding by UNFPA for Chinese population control programs. At the meeting, the U.S. voted against continuing any UN programs in China.

“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,” a U.S. delegate said. “Every UNDP dollar spent in China is one less for countries that truly depend on that funding.”

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The U.S. government also accused China of human rights violations through population control. “The U.S. stands for the rights of the individual, rights that the Chinese government utterly disregards,” a U.S. delegate said.

“China’s coercive family planning policies are antithetical to America’s promotion of individual liberty,” he said. “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.”

China’s ongoing population control program is the reason the U.S. government withdrew funding from the UN population agency....

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In addition to attacking the Trump administration’s pro-life policies, Ambassador Sun Lei defended UN programs in China claiming they were “empowering women, children, and vulnerable groups, in line with the core values of the United Nations, human rights and development.” ...

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Editor's Note: Stefano Gennarini, J.D. writes for C-Fam. This article first appeared in the Friday Fax, an internet report published weekly by C-Fam (Center for Family & Human Rights), a New York and Washington DC-based research institute (https://c-fam.org/). This article appears with permission.