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WRWF's Reggie Littlejohn to Testify Today on China's Brutal Forced Abortions

Contact: Reggie Littlejohn, President, Women's Rights Without Frontiers, 310-592-5722

 

WASHINGTON, July 9, 2012 /Standard Newswire/ -- Women's Rights Without Frontiers (WRWF) Founder and President, Reggie Littlejohn, will testify today before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and Human Rights, at a hearing on the topic, "Continued Human Rights Attacks on Families in China." The hearing will take place at 2:00 in room 2172, Rayburn House Office Building.

 

Littlejohn's testimony is entitled, "Feng Jianmei and International Outrage -- An Update Concerning Forced Abortion in China." Feng Jianmei was forcibly aborted at seven months of pregnancy. Family Planning Officials laid the body of her forcibly aborted daughter next to her in the bed. WRWF broke the story of Feng Jianmei to the West, on this blog post: www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/blog/?p=667

 

Littlejohn will testify concerning the spate of brutal, late-term forced abortion cases that have arisen in June, as well as the growing international pressure to end coercive family planning in China.

 

Littlejohn's full testimony for the hearing today can be found here: www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/blog/?p=691