this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2025
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["While individual women have spoken out before about forced birth control, the practice is far more widespread and systematic than previously known, according to an AP investigation based on government statistics, state documents and interviews with 30 ex-detainees, family members and a former detention camp instructor. The campaign over the past four years in the far west region of Xinjiang is leading to what some experts are calling a form of “demographic genocide.”
The state regularly subjects minority women to pregnancy checks, and forces intrauterine devices, sterilization and even abortion on hundreds of thousands, the interviews and data show. Even while the use of IUDs and sterilization has fallen nationwide, it is rising sharply in Xinjiang."]( https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-international-news-weekend-reads-china-health-269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c#%3A%7E%3Atext=The+Chinese+government+is+taking%2Cmajority+to+have+more+children)
You're citing the very same professional propagandist for the Victims of Communism Foundation I spoke of earlier. This is not a real source, it's fiction. Here's a decent source going over Zenz and his background as a propagandist.
IUD usage is increasing as Xinjiang develops economically and family planning becomes more important. The Uyghur people were exempt from the One Child Policy, and as a consequence the increase in IUD usage seems more drastic than it actually is, plus Zenz was caught literally making up numbers.
100%^[It is known] of new^[It is known] IUDs^[It is known] in China^[It is known] are being forced^[It is known] on Uyghurs^[Source: Zenz]
Yep, any time I see the word "IUD" on anything related to Xinjiang I ctrl+f "Zenz" and 99/100 times it pops up. The last 1/100 is just a link to Zenz indirectly.