Marco Rubio Continues to Oppose China's Population Control Policies

Presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who co-chairs the Congressional Executive Commission on China, weighed in on Thursday after reports emerged that China was ending its One-Child Policy.

“For over three decades, China’s barbaric One-Child Policy has condemned approximately 37 million Chinese girls – who the policy deemed as unwanted or ‘surplus’ – to abortion, infanticide, abandonment and human trafficking,” Rubio said. “It has resulted in an unprecedented gender imbalance that will have lasting consequences.
 
“While the decision to allow Chinese couples to have two children is a modest improvement, the policy is still repressive. The fact remains that when couples conceive a third child, the Chinese government will force them to eliminate him or her, by any means necessary,” Rubio added.  “A two-child policy is as indefensible and inhumane as a one child policy, and it would be a mistake to assume this change in anyway reflects a newfound respect for human rights by Beijing. The U.S. must continue advocating for the complete elimination of government-forced population planning as well as the fundamental rights of all Chinese citizens, including the unborn, to live up to their God-given potential.”