Gordon Chang: “Coerced sterilization, however, is not the roughest tactic the state employs. One-child officials have, across China, resorted to forced abortions and the killing of babies just seconds old. Murder may not be state policy, but the practice is widespread, well-known and condoned. Beijing’s leaders know or should know what is being done. In the top-down, unitary state they run, they are, in a real sense, responsible for the abhorrent acts committed to enforce their population decrees and laws.”