Chen Guangcheng and China's One Child Policy

Blind activist Chen Guangcheng exposed the fact that there were 130,000 forced abortions and steriizations in Linyi County. For this, he served four years, three months in prison, where he was tortured and denied medical treatment. He and his family are now under house arrest, where his health is quickly declining. Reggie Littlejohn of Women's Rights Without Frontiers calls for his immediate release.

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[Nathan Hazlett]

The treatment of Chen Guangcheng is typical of the cruelty of the communist regime

One day China will be free and it will be thanks to the courage of dissidents like him

Time and time again, the communist regime shows they are nothing but arrogant, bullying cowards

[CLAMAS555]

I am so encouraged that Chen Guangcheng courage is becoming apparent to the watching world. China is the most populous country in the world, but the solution will never be insidious murder and oppression. Governments that resort to such methods throughout history inevitably collapse from the inside out. Take it from a world history teacher, like myself, whose knows " that the those who do not heed the lessons of history's failures are doomed to perpetuate the same.

[shanjinrong]

If we overthrow our govt, who will be the benefiary?USA!

[Vyskochkova1]

Rise up chinese citizens! Overthrow your evil government by force, by standing together with strength and power and with weapons. Then you will have the chance that all citizens of the world have, to become rich and healthy and happy.

[stepoutside1]

Okay. I get that Guangcheng is totally supporting women on an individual basis. However, I don't understand how this helps his county not to become so over-populated that millions don't die in starvation. It seems that his true crusade should be humane birth control methods--birth control pills, education, etc.-- to give a decent quality of life to the most people possible. How am I wrong here?

[Mari Santucho]

A TODO EL QUE LEA HAGA ESCUCHAR SU VOS A FAVOR DE FREE CHEN Y SU ESPOSA, Y POR SU INMEDIATA LIBERTAD DIOS TE BENDIGA Y TE GUARDE FREE CHE, BARON EFORZADO Y VALIENTE