SPUC has launched an urgent petition calling on the UK Government to end funding to China where coerced abortion has been imposed on the Uyghur minority population.
SPUC recently released a report, COMPLICIT, exposing China’s horrific campaign of forced abortion and sterilisation waged as a method of population control against Uyghurs – and questioning why the UK Government is still sending millions in aid to China’s brutal Communist regime.
Speaking at the report’s launch event at Parliament in March, Jacob Rees-Mogg MP said: “That British taxpayers’ money should be used to support one of the most evil, totalitarian regimes in the world, that forces women who want to have children to abort their babies, if you don’t think that is a scandal, then what human rights abuse would you think is a scandal?”
Recent polling has found that almost two-thirds of the British public believe the UK should cut abortion funding in countries such as China where concerns exist about women being coerced into abortion.
Over £60 million in UK aid was sent to China, the world’s second-largest economy, between 2020-2021.
For more information on SPUC’s report and how UK money contributes to coerced abortion in China, visit our dedicated webpage, COMPLICIT, by clicking here.
SPUC comment
A SPUC spokesperson said: “We need your help to call on the UK Government to cease its funding of a brutal regime that uses coerced abortion and sterilisation as a method of population control against the Uyghur minority population.
“The UK must not be complicit in such blatant and well-proven abuses. By turning a blind eye to what has gone on and is still going on, we would be increasingly culpable in one of the great crimes of the 21st century.
“We call on the Government to move quickly and meaningfully to end the use of taxpayer money by abortion services in any nation where women are being coerced into abortion.
“Please give us your support and add your name to our petition here.”
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