House Republican Calls On Obama To Stand Against China's One Child Policy

By Mike Hothi

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) blasted the Obama administration Friday for indirectly aiding China’s one-child policy by continuing to fund the United Nations Population Fund, which he claims tolerates human rights abuses within China.

“[The Population Fund] are not part of the solution, they are enabling the problem,” Smith said during a press briefing with other Republican lawmakers as well as a Chinese activist who says she was coerced into following China’s controversial policy. “I believe that they and those in China who have committed these atrocities against women need to be held to account for their crimes against humanity.”

Smith added that the policy amounts to “state sponsored rape.”

During the previous administration, the White House denied federally allocated funds from reaching the Population Fund to protest China’s policy.