Thanks to Congressman Joe Pitts that brought this news item to our attention today:
A life saved in China
On Thursday, November 13, Radio Free Asia and the Uyghur Human Rights Project reported that Chinese authorities tried to pressure Arzigul Tursun, a Uyghur ethnic minority, who is 26 weeks pregnant with her third child, to have an abortion. When she refused and fled her home, authorities interrogated and threatened her relatives and took her back into custody on November 11. According to the reports, the authorities forced a relative to sign a document authorizing the abortion—which was originally scheduled for Thursday, November 13.
She escaped the hospital, but authorities captured her again. After international awareness was raised about the issue and I and my colleague, Rep. Chris Smith, issued statements urging the Chinese authorities to keep the abortion from happening, Tursun was released on November 18. I am pleased that this woman was not forced into ending the life of her child against her will, and I am pleased this case has brought international attention to a brutal practice in China that has no place in a civil society.
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