Why Sould She Care About Human Rights After Birth When She Doesn't Care About Them Before Birth?
Amnesty International's outrage is very hypocritical. They are pro-abortion. In other words, they don't care about the basic right to life, only those rights they deem you deserve after you are born.
Much as it pains me to admit it, I have to credit Hillary with being consistant. Whatever is politically expedient is all she cares about. It is all about her, not Obama, not the USA & definitely not any other human being.
By Kathleen Gilbert
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Hillary Clinton, on her first trip to China as Secretary of State in February, angered human rights groups when she dismissed any discussion of the country's human rights violations, instead focusing on issues such as the economy and global warming.
"Successive administrations and Chinese governments have been poised back and forth on these [human rights] issues," Clinton told reporters in South Korea Saturday, "and we have to continue to press them. But our pressing on those issues can't interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis, and the security crisis."
The Chinese government is regarded as one of the world's foremost anti-life and anti-family totalitarian regimes. China's one-child policy involves the use of forced sterilization and forced abortion, as well as the levying of crippling fines for those who violate the policy.
The country has also consistently been found to be systematically violating basic political freedoms, freedom of religion and freedom of speech. Radio Free Asia issued a report last week indicating that during Clinton's visit, several Chinese Christian and Pro-Democracy activists were put under surveillance or detained by Beijing authorities, ostensibly to prevent their lodging a plea to the Secretary against the Chinese government's abuses.
Several human rights groups, including Amnesty International, expressed "shock" and "extreme disappointment" at Clinton's treatment of human rights issues.
Congressman Chris Smith remarked on Clinton's words at a press conference Thursday, where he was joined with other congressmen and former political prisoners from China. "With those words, the Secretary effectively took human rights off the U.S. agenda with the Chinese Government," said Smith, who called the exchange "a shocking display of pandering."
"Secretary Clinton made it clear in Beijing that the Obama Administration has chosen to peddle U.S. debt to the largest dictatorship in the world over defending the Chinese people from its government's policies of torture, forced labor, forced abortion, religious persecution, human sex trafficking, gendercide, and genocide." Smith noted the "irony" that, a few days after Clinton's controversial statements, the Department of State observed in its annual Country Reports on Human Rights, that China's human rights record had worsened in 2008.
"The protection and promotion of human rights ought to be at the core of our relationship with an egregious violator like China - but the Secretary has signaled that for her it will be a talking point at the bottom of the diplomatic agenda - one she's in no hurry to get to," Smith said.
Smith recalled that former Chinese political prisoner Wei Jingsheng once told him that, "When your government submits to the Chinese government's demand to stop raising human rights issues, they beat us more; when you stand up to them, they beat us less." "Right now, Chinese political prisoners are paying the price for the Secretary's words," said Smith. "They are being beaten. Their jailers are taunting them that the world has forgotten them, telling them that nobody cares about their fate."
President and Founder of ChinaAid Bob Fu, who was present at the press conference, said: "While Secretary Clinton was visiting in China, Christians were sitting in their cold prison cells and working in labor camps around the clock. What message were they expecting her to deliver from the leader of the free world? At the very least, they expected her to say, 'Brothers and sisters, we are with you while you are suffering.'"
Rep. Smith also touched upon Obama's decision to renew funding the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which has been found in several investigations to be actively facilitating China's coercive family planning program. "Forced abortion deserves a special word in this list of human rights abuses, as it is the only one that the Democratic Congressional leadership appears determined to fund with U.S. taxpayer money," said Smith.
Smith's attempt last week to stop funding to the UNFPA in an Omnibus spending bill was ignored by congressional leaders.
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WASHINGTON, D.C., March 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Hillary Clinton, on her first trip to China as Secretary of State in February, angered human rights groups when she dismissed any discussion of the country's human rights violations, instead focusing on issues such as the economy and global warming.
"Successive administrations and Chinese governments have been poised back and forth on these [human rights] issues," Clinton told reporters in South Korea Saturday, "and we have to continue to press them. But our pressing on those issues can't interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis, and the security crisis."
The Chinese government is regarded as one of the world's foremost anti-life and anti-family totalitarian regimes. China's one-child policy involves the use of forced sterilization and forced abortion, as well as the levying of crippling fines for those who violate the policy.
The country has also consistently been found to be systematically violating basic political freedoms, freedom of religion and freedom of speech. Radio Free Asia issued a report last week indicating that during Clinton's visit, several Chinese Christian and Pro-Democracy activists were put under surveillance or detained by Beijing authorities, ostensibly to prevent their lodging a plea to the Secretary against the Chinese government's abuses.
Several human rights groups, including Amnesty International, expressed "shock" and "extreme disappointment" at Clinton's treatment of human rights issues.
Congressman Chris Smith remarked on Clinton's words at a press conference Thursday, where he was joined with other congressmen and former political prisoners from China. "With those words, the Secretary effectively took human rights off the U.S. agenda with the Chinese Government," said Smith, who called the exchange "a shocking display of pandering."
"Secretary Clinton made it clear in Beijing that the Obama Administration has chosen to peddle U.S. debt to the largest dictatorship in the world over defending the Chinese people from its government's policies of torture, forced labor, forced abortion, religious persecution, human sex trafficking, gendercide, and genocide." Smith noted the "irony" that, a few days after Clinton's controversial statements, the Department of State observed in its annual Country Reports on Human Rights, that China's human rights record had worsened in 2008.
"The protection and promotion of human rights ought to be at the core of our relationship with an egregious violator like China - but the Secretary has signaled that for her it will be a talking point at the bottom of the diplomatic agenda - one she's in no hurry to get to," Smith said.
Smith recalled that former Chinese political prisoner Wei Jingsheng once told him that, "When your government submits to the Chinese government's demand to stop raising human rights issues, they beat us more; when you stand up to them, they beat us less." "Right now, Chinese political prisoners are paying the price for the Secretary's words," said Smith. "They are being beaten. Their jailers are taunting them that the world has forgotten them, telling them that nobody cares about their fate."
President and Founder of ChinaAid Bob Fu, who was present at the press conference, said: "While Secretary Clinton was visiting in China, Christians were sitting in their cold prison cells and working in labor camps around the clock. What message were they expecting her to deliver from the leader of the free world? At the very least, they expected her to say, 'Brothers and sisters, we are with you while you are suffering.'"
Rep. Smith also touched upon Obama's decision to renew funding the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which has been found in several investigations to be actively facilitating China's coercive family planning program. "Forced abortion deserves a special word in this list of human rights abuses, as it is the only one that the Democratic Congressional leadership appears determined to fund with U.S. taxpayer money," said Smith.
Smith's attempt last week to stop funding to the UNFPA in an Omnibus spending bill was ignored by congressional leaders.
See related LifeSiteNews.com articles:
Congress Snubs Proposed Amendments Blocking Coerced Abortion/Sterilization Funding
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/feb/09022605.html
Obama Promises to Fund Coercive China One-Child Policy Collaborator UNFPA
Obama Promises to Fund Coercive China One-Child Policy Collaborator UNFPA
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