As I am reading more about the Chinese government and its communist regime, I'm becoming more aware of just how disturbing it is that the Olympic Games are being held in Beijing. The very fact that the games are being hosted there is a statement to the world that the Olympics have become a political event this year - an event that shows solidarity toward the many atrocities that China has complied with and forced upon its people against human life and basic human dignity.

Since 1979, China has enforced the One Child Policy under the State Commission of Population and Family Planning in which a family is only allowed one child. After the child is born, the mother is sterilized. If a woman is pregnant after having one child, she is given a forced abortion.

The One Child Policy has thrown the demographic map of the Chinese human population into a whirl hole. With a fertility rate of 1.7 births per woman, the Chinese population is devastatingly below replacement level.

The policy has further led to sex-selective abortion - baby girls are killed at a higher rate than boys. It's disgusting enough to know that human babies are killed in the hundreds every day by abortion, let alone to know that the numbers are in greater quantity for those babies who are female, my fellow sisters out there, simply because they're female.

Located on the following web site is posted a video in which you will meet Steven Mosher, the president of the Population Research Institute, a non-profit organization that works to report the human violations present in population control.

I urge you to watch this video, even if it's just to be more aware, if not already, of what's currently happening in this one aspect of China's regime: www.beijingboycottcoalition.com.

Rachael Tissot

Moravia