birth prevention

The U.S. government and parliaments in countries including Britain and Canada have described China's birth prevention and mass detention policies in Xinjiang as genocide.

Zenz and other experts point to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which lists birth prevention targeting an ethnic group as one act that could qualify as genocide.

Mr. Zenz found that the Xinjiang authorities planned in 2019 to subject at least 80 percent of women of childbearing age in four rural southern prefectures to intrusive birth prevention surgeries, intrauterine devices or sterilizations.

Zenz said that by 2019, Xinjiang planned to subject at least 80% of women of childbearing age in its four southern minority prefectures to intrusive birth prevention surgeries - placement of intrauterine devices or sterilizations.

We must continue to invest in premature birth prevention because every baby deserves a healthy start in life,” said March of Dimes President Dr. Jennifer L. Howse, in a statement.