Reports published by “The Lancet,” the world’s oldest and best-known peer-reviewed medical journal, has praised China’s ‘one-child’ policy and ignored decades of forced abortion, sterilisation, and coercive family planning.

One paper, titled “A Lancet Commission on 70 years of women’s reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health in China,” describes the country’s achievements and discusses policy and socioeconomic transitions, and their impact on epidemiological and demographic transitions…

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The report uncritically praises at length the ‘remarkable achievements’ of the Chinese government’s policy on reproductive health and socioeconomic outcomes…

A further report from the same journal states: “China continuously updated laws and policies to protect women’s and children’s health and rights, with initial achievements preceding intensified economic development after 1990.”…

It claimed: “Since the foundation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the government’s iconic declarations of ‘Women hold up half the sky’ and ‘Children are the future and hope of the motherland’ have not been empty rhetoric but instead have been supported by strong political commitment and a series of laws and actions prioritizing women’s and children’s rights.”…

It even lists the ‘benefits’ of the one-child policy enacted by the CCP in 1980, claiming: “Because of fewer pregnancies and births, there was lower maternal morbidity and lower mortality.”…

While the report acknowledges that China’s one-child policy prompted the “overuse” of abortion, including sex-selective abortion, “even though it is illegal,” it avoided acknowledging the full reality…

It asserts “women benefited from a smaller number of pregnancies and births, which reduced morbidity and mortality; and family resources were concentrated in fewer children, promoting their healthy growth and development, which especially benefited girls.”

The only adverse effects of the policy acknowledged in the report are “the decrease in births, which led to a reduction in the labor force that is necessary for sustained economic growth,” “a large number of sex-selective abortions…” along with “the so-called 4:2:1 phenomenon…”…

Spokesperson for Right To Life UK, Catherine Robinson, said: “It is an utter disgrace that a leading medical journal could claim that the one-child policy ‘objectively accelerated gender equality’, despite it having resulted in widespread forced abortions and sterilization of women, not to mention the mass infanticide and abandonment of female babies…”

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(Excerpted from LifeNews. Photo Credit: Raychan Mijzk/Unsplash).