The significance of Senator John Madigan's bill

As a follow-on to the official Complaint and further publicise the plight of pregnant Chinese women, Endeavour Forum Inc. organised an NGO "Parallel Event" at the Commission on the Status of Women meeting in New York in March this year. The presenter was Reggie Littlejohn of Women's Rights Without Frontiers, who screened It's a Girl, a powerful documentary about gendercide and forced abortion in China and India.

Reggie said "The preference for sons in China has encouraged gendercide (the selective abortion of girls). Now, there are 37 million more men than women living in China today. This gender imbalance drives human trafficking and sexual slavery. And China has the highest female suicide rate of any country in the world. This is the true war against women. We call upon China's incoming president, Xi Jinping, immediately to abandon all coercive population control and to end this bloody reign of terror."

Littlejohn also spoke about WRWF's "Save a Girl" Campaign, in which fieldworkers identify women pregnant with girls and encourage them not to abort or abandon their daughters. WRWF gives these women a monthly stipend for a year, to help support these girls. "We are saving lives and ending gendercide, one baby girl at a time," Littlejohn stated. "It is astonishing how little it takes to save a life in China. We need support to expand this highly effective campaign."

Samuel Casey informs members of the Coaltion to end Violence Against Pregnant Women that receipt of our Complaint has been acknowledged by UN Women. It will no doubt go through a tortuous process of being "investigated" by a series of committees. Whether the victims of China's One Child Policy will ever receive a modicum of justice is an open question.

The Australian Senate's Finance & Public Administration Committee is holding an inquiry into Senator Madigan's Bill and has invited submissions. Hopefully the Bill will receive an expeditious passage and Australian taxpayers can stop funding forced abortions in China.