The “one-child policy” was introduced by the Chinese communist regime thirty years ago to control population growth.

The policy is enforced by the Population and Family Planning Commissions of each province. Pregnancies without a permit are terminated, and individuals are also sterilized.

While the Chinese regime maintains abortions and sterilizations are voluntary, a hearing on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. revealed another story.

Voice of America reports the Congressional Panel of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission heard accounts from one woman who became pregnant without a “birth permit.” She was hunted down by local family planning officials who then terminated her pregnancy with drugs and surgery.

Reggie Littlejohn, president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers told NTD the Communist regime is propagating lies.

[Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers]:
“They know that if people understand that people are being dragged out of their homes and strapped down to tables and forcibly aborted, that would raise an outcry internationally. And so they have expended considerable resources into propagating the lie that they are lightening up on the one child policy.”

Also at the hearing, Beijing lawyer Jiang Tianyong gave accounts of blind human rights lawyer Chen Guangchen who was imprisoned for assisting victims of forced abortions.

Members of the hearing called on United States President Barack Obama to raise this issue and other human rights issues when he visits China later this month.