Supreme Court to Consider Chinese Forced Abortion Asylum Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider appeals by two men whose partners were forced to undergo abortions in China. U.S. courts have taken "varying approaches" to petitions for asylum by Chinese men who argue that they have suffered from the country's one-child-per-family policy. The Bush administration is opposing the two petitions for asylum for the men, although there is no dispute that women can seek asylum under the law. As part of China's one-child policy, couples are prohibited to marry until the man is 22 and the woman is 20, but the government says that many people enter into traditional marriages at younger ages. As part of a report on human rights released in March, the U.S. State Department found that Chinese authorities sometimes impose forced abortions or sterilizations for people who seek to have children and are not legally married, or who want more than one child.
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Posted by Editor at May 9, 2008 11:09 AM