2 Amendments of Ewald STADLER related to 2012/2137(INI)
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines that although forced abortions are strictly illegal in China, family-planning officials repeatedly coerce women into abortions or sterilisation and calls therefore on the People's Republic of China to stop and strictly punish this way of proceeding, while encouraging the abolition of abortion and respecting the fundamental right to life of the unborn; condemns the so-called ‘social maintenance fee’, an often exorbitant fine that parents have to pay in the event of extra births, as was the case in the tragedy of Feng Jianmei; wholeheartedly supports Chinese voices that call for an end of the one-child policy;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Wishes to see the flourishing Protestant house churches and underground CatholicCalls in particular for the unofficial Catholic churches and the growing numbers of Protestant 'house churches' to be granted official recognition by the Chinese State as well; strongly condemns all attempts by the authorities to deprive these non-registered churches of their fundamental right of freedom of religion;