One on Oct. 31 forced abortion clinics across Texas to close.
The most effective of these laws forced abortion clinics to close down.
Other abuses included gang-rape, sexual slavery, forced abortion and a sharp increase in the use of children as soldiers.
A footnote then explains: Human trafficking, child pornography and prostitution, pimping, sexual slavery and forced abortion are inherently coercive of vulnerable females.
"The Obama administration strongly opposes all aspects of China's coercive birth limitation policies, including forced abortion and sterilization," said Kendra Barkoff, the vice president's press secretary.
The Fujianese (sometimes called Fukienese) had various reasons for leaving home — what demographers call "push factors" — ranging from political repression to China's policies of sterilization and forced abortion.
"The pattern is to identify women who are pregnant, so the camp authorities can get rid of the babies through forced abortion, torture or very hard labor.
The $34m will now go to the State Department's Agency for International Development.The administration has backed some anti-abortion Republicans who claim that the population fund indirectly supports forced abortion and sterilisation in China.
At that conference, Clinton, as First Lady, gave an unsparing assessment of so many of the grimmer aspects of the female condition: political exclusion, discrimination, rape as a weapon of war, genital cutting, forced illiteracy, forced abortion and sterilization.
Violations could involve direct physical coercion such as rape or forced abortion or sterilization, or coercive interference with decisions regarding sexual activity or contraception.
